"Application has moved" repairing won't work

[Yixian]

I installed Adobe CS 3 recently, and like to have the individual app folders in one big folder, but now whenever I try and launch them, I am asked to repair the settings as it's been moved. Every time. When I repair, or even if I cancel, it works, it opens, but if I quit, it will ask my again the next time.

Any ideas?

 

[Yixian]

Wow, tough question huh?

 

[Yixian]

Omg, please

 

[ox4dboy]

Any update on this? It is happening to me too - I am just starting to troubleshoot.

 

[SmartIndianKid]

Reinstall it, but instead of into the Applications folder, create a subfolder in Applications.

 

[ox4dboy]

Just did a fresh install of CS4 and I still get the error message. I suppose I may have to uninstall all CS versions and then reinstall?

Seems there should be a OS X cache file somewhere that can be deleted. A launcher cache file or something? It seems taht the CS4 install has inherited the CS3 launch error.

 

[synth3tik]

I have the same issue. I am sure it happened when I moved all Adobe apps from /applications to /applications/adobe.

Have not found a fix, annoying yes, but you can just hit cancel and the application will load w/o issue.

 

[ox4dboy]

Adobe's solution...
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb401628&sliceId=2

...works, but I still would like to be able to move my CS apps without having to reinstall.

If you are reading this, and have not installed CS yet, choose your custom installation folder during installation so you do not need to move the apps after

 

[ox4dboy]

You can simply (as the link above mentions) drag all your CS apps from your custom "adobe" folder back to the regular "Applications" folder and live with a slightly messy Applications/Adobe folder.

Dragging my CS 3 apps back to the root Applications folder allowed me to launch CS4 apps with out the annoying warning.

I do dislike the extra scrolling all the CS apps cause in the top level 'Applications' folder...here's to hoping Snow Leopard's Finder revisions make this experience better.

I don't venture int the Applications folder too much, thanks to Spotlight and Quick Silver, so I guess I'll live.

 

[ox4dboy]

OK, well..I spoke too fast. My CS 3 applications now launch without error...but Photoshop CS4 has now inherited the warning message even though I did not move it from its install location.

I am going to byte the bullet and uninstall/reinstall all CS apps via AppZapper

[^] UPDATE:
After using AppZapper to uninstall CS4 and then reinstalling CS4 all is well.

[>] Diagnosis:
After I installed CS4 I tried copying the Photoshop CS4 to a new sub folder just to see what would happen. Launching the copied Photoshop CS4 triggered the error and then that trickled down to the originally installed (and non-copied) Photoshop too. Not sure why, but copying an installed Photoshop application folder destroys the launching of any other version of Photoshop.

I also noticed during the reinstallation that the new CS4 installer does not allow me to choose a custom folder...at least it appears by default it is not optional. There was no browser button to pick a new destination to install Photoshop CS4.