at the moment I'd rather bitch about having to leave the air conditioned comfort of the office to go measure up a clients piece of equipment on a very humid 40 degree day...
On 26/02/2010, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: > There's nothing about the CS3 applications that doesn't suit me. > But... the courses I'm teaching are built around the CS4 Adobe apps > and it's becoming increasingly difficult to plan lessons for classes > that use the CS4 interfaces while I'm working with the CS3 > interfaces... so, even though it's expensive (even with an academic > discount), I recently ordered the Adobe CS4 "Production Premium" > suite. > > I was dreading the install Even before I started. Adobe won't let you > "upgrade" apps - you have to install the new software alongside your > existing versions, transfer plug-ins and Actions and then uninstall > the old versions. Infuriating. But that's how it goes if everything > *works*. Which it didn't. > > Error message that says some component installs failed: a list that > includes just about every application in the suite. Multiple tries. > Disabling firewall and anti-virus software. Many re-boots. Manually > uninstalling old versions before installing new ones. A Google search > on the error message I'm getting reveals I'm far from alone. None of > the official or unofficial remedies works. One brilliant suggestion > from Adobe: "Try installing on another computer". Hey Doug! Wanna let > me install my new Adobe software suite on your computer? > > Finally, I just let the installation run through to the end, even > though it warned me at the beginning that almost none of the aps would > be installed. Strangely, it goes through all 4 DVD's. And in the end > about half of the apps do install, even though the error message said > they wouldn't. Only Premiere Pro, After Effects and Encore failed. And > I deleted the CS3 versions at the start (and I'm afraid to risk trying > to re-install them at this point). Fortunately, my new laptop is > (barely) powerful to do the limited video editing I need to do at the > moment, and it has the CS3 suite, so I can get by. > > I'm thinking all along, "I paid $$$ for this when I probably could > have found a torrent with a crack that would have installed with less > trouble!" > > Good news is that the CS4 version of Adobe Bridge seems to be stable > enough to be actually usable (Bridge CS3 caused me no end of trouble). > > Other good news is that my laptop has demonstrated that 64-bit Windows > 7 looks like a winner, so I'll soon be upgrading my desktop OS. With a > clean install, I'm hoping that the CS4 install works completely if I > install before any of the other software. Yeah, call me a dreamer... > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
