The CS3 licensing bug on Snow Leopard

[Michael CM1]

This has been by far the biggest bug affecting me, and I'm about out of guesses.

I did the obvious reinstall. Nope, no dice. So I used the uninstaller to take everything off. Nope. So I found a Web site that suggesting deleting a crapload of tucked-away Adobe files in the /Library folder. Reinstalled and still have the same problem.

Pretty much the next step is to call Adobe tech support and scream HELP!, but I have also heard that they won't "support" CS3 on Snow Leopard. A lot of crapola for something I spent $600 on a couple of years ago. But still, I really need this stuff to work.

I did a clean install of Snow Leopard and then restored my data from a Time Machine backup. After an hour of fiddling, I really don't know what to do. Any help would rock.

 

[maflynn]

Wow that's odd, because I have CS3 and have not run into any issues.
I didn't even bother "deauthorizing" the computer.

In any case if you cannot authorize or are having licensing problems, your best bet is to contact adobe support on this issue

 

[psxguru]

Is it complaining about an expired licence and quitting straight away? This happened to me when I upgraded to SL.

No need to reinstall, just delete the folder /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD/cache

and run any of the apps again and you will be prompted to enter your serial number again.