CS4 has been plagued with install issues, as you've seen firsthand. I have the entire suite here that absolutely refuses to install on my Mac. I tried the Adobe forums first, then tech support (free for installation issues) and spent a good 6-7 hours of my life on the phone and was never able to get the stupid thing to install. It's just a complete joke. None of the clean scripts they have do a damn thing except get the install to a further point before failing.
----- Original Message ---- > From: Mark Roberts <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 6:13:27 PM > Subject: Let's not bitch about Pentax... Let's bitch about Adobe. > > 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 > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
