I recently tried to put my adobe cs3 collection into a stack on my desktop for organization. When i open one of the programs it says "it was moved from original location and needs to be repaired." i click repair now and it opens then another window pops up and says "you have at least one output module template that refers to a missing output pulg-in. Please check your ouput module templates." I dunno whats wrong. Is there a way i can restore the programs?because some effects are missing in the program. thanks. your help is greatly appreciated.
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Help About Stacks and data loss.please
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The easiest route is to reinstall CS3. CS3 is annoying like that.
The repair function is totally broken. There's directions someplace to get a SQLlite to edit blah blah, but it didn't work (for me).
The repair function is totally broken. There's directions someplace to get a SQLlite to edit blah blah, but it didn't work (for me).
Don't know if applications can survive in stacks. You can make an alias of the application and put that alias in your stack.
okay so there is pretty much no chance of me getting them back to normal unless i reinstall it? im think about going up to the apple store and telling them about it and see if they can do anything to help
How did you put them into a stack? Did you move the apps? If so, moving them back should fix your issue.
i moved them into a folder. then after they needed to be repaired i moved them back but it didnt help
That's probably a product of the repair thingy's buggering everything up. Yeah, a reinstall is probably the way to go now. Adobe is an invasive and self-centred piece of software.
Once you have everything working again in the original locations, keep in mind that you can still do what you originally intended to do, but by only putting aliases of the applications into a stack rather than the actual application. I've done much the same thing for convenience in an "Adobe" stack/folder in my dock.
so if they are just originally on the dock i make alias of them and a stack for them then i can remove them from my dock? i dont wanna make the same mistake again.ha
OK, here is simple version of that!
1. Make a folder somewhere- perhaps inside your Applications folder.
2. Name it whatever you like- let's say "Adobe"
3. Click one of the Adobe apps you would like to appear in the stack, then click Command+L (or use File-->Make Alias) to create an alias of the app
4. Drag the alias to your "Adobe" folder
5. Repeat for any other apps you want to be in the stack
6. When you are done adding aliases, drag the Adobe folder to the right hand side of the dock and release.
7. You will now have a stack with all your Adobe apps similar to the attached pic
BTW- Don't be confused by looking for the little "arrow" alias indicators in my pic. The icons in the pic ARE aliases but I modified my alias indicator to be a green dot instead of the arrow symbol.
(As far as any icons currently in your dock, just click and drag them off the dock and the aliases will disappear in a "poof".)
