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Photoshop won't load-possible monolingual screw up aargh please help

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angryhive

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Jun 1, 2008
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If someone could help me out here (again, today)...

I seem to have rendered my friend's copy of photoshop unusable. The icon in the dock bounces up and down but won't load. I just used monolingual, saw somewhere that might be a problem holy crap please help me!!!!

Also none of CS3 works. Waaah!
 
What version of Photoshop? If it's pre-CS3 then it's not Universal. If you told Monolingual to strip the non-native architectures (PPC in this case) then no non-Universal (or Intel-only) apps will run. The only way to solve this is to re-install OSX and learn to be more careful in future.
 
angryhive said:
If someone could help me out here (again, today)...

I seem to have rendered my friend's copy of photoshop unusable. The icon in the dock bounces up and down but won't load. I just used monolingual, saw somewhere that might be a problem holy crap please help me!!!!

Also none of CS3 works. Waaah!
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I had this same problem after running monolingual. But after a restart, everything is working fine. Did you restart?
 
Reinstall? After removing language packs? no no no no!

I have no idea what universal means. yes it is cs3. Any other solutions?

yes i did restart too.
 
angryhive said:
Reinstall? After removing language packs? no no no no!

I have no idea what universal means. yes it is cs3. Any other solutions?

yes i did restart too.
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Monolingual can do more than remove language packs. It can remove the code required to run old software written before there were Intel Macs. As you are talking about CS3 that doesn't matter as it is written for both old PPC and new Intel Macs (this is what Universal means). Try rebooting.
 
ah crap. Well, i think other things like the installer are screwed too. What's onyx, by the way-some program to solve all my woes? (he says hopefully)

So you say that monolingual should not effect CS3 if i remove language files? Thats even worse news.

I've rebooted several times, i just noticed it though.

Thanks for helping by the way.
 
You don't have to do a complete reinstall. You can Archive and Install and tell it not to load the language packs. Then you will have your architecture back but not the languages.
 
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