The CS3 licensing bug on Snow Leopard

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  1. Michael CM1, Oct 15, 2009

    Michael CM1 macrumors 603

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    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.
     
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  2. maflynn, Oct 15, 2009

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    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
     
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  3. psxguru, Oct 15, 2009

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    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.
     
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