[jholmes]

I just got a new PowerBook Ti - the 667 with the DVD drive. I've had it less than a month. It came loaded with X and 9.2.1 Over the last week I've had major problems. All my adobe apps - Phototshop6, Illustrator9 and Acrobat all died. Everything else works fine - all my Office apps work as does everything I've tried in Appleworks. It's just the Adobe stuff. First it wouldn't load the app and I got a type 12 error - I can't find any documentation that says what that is. Thinking it was a network problem I dropped off my airport network and the error changed to a type 2 error.
I went to Extension Mgr and dropped back to the base extension set and it still gave me the error.

This morning it gives me a bomb and a type 10 error when I tried to open Illustrator.

I reloaded the system 9.2.1 software and it moved all my apps to the Applications folder - Could that be it?

It could be a conflict with 1 of the 180 extensions I seem to have but before I blew a week going through one by one I thought I'd see if there were any known issues with adobe stuff and 9.2.1

Thanks for any help !

[godzookie2k]

Not that I know of. Its not because they aren't in the Apps folder, thats a definate. My adobe apps are buried so deep into my harddrive its not funny and they work peachy. Have you tried deleting the 'adobe' folder and prefs in your preferences folder? thats always a possibility. As for your 180 extention set, well, yeah thats probably a viable cause. (*why* do you have 180 extentions might I add? ) Perhaps letting conflict catcher run through it?

Nick

[Demonhood]

try moving the Adobe folder out of the Application Support folder and see if it creates a fresh new one. that might help.

[quomp]

Have you had this problem (I have the 667 too!)

While we all wait for PS X to come our way I am trying to use the slightly slower PS 6.0 in OSX Classic mode.

Much to my horror I can ONLY allocate 500MB to PS otherwise the program 'unexpectantly quits'.

Please tell me there is a way to use more of my hard earned gig of RAM - I need to deit a 400MB file and it would be 'nice'...

Any workarounds anyone?

[godzookie2k]

No workarounds yet. You can't dedicate more than 360 megs exactly to after effects or else down goes classic and every other open application. I think its a classic problem and not a adobe problem. I've submitted it to apple but i haven't heard anything yet.

Nick

[ 11-27-2001: Message edited by: godzookie2k ]

[godzookie2k]

Ok, here is something new. Before the forthcoming 9.2.2 update one couldn't dedicate more than 360 megs to Aftereffects. Post 9.2.2, I *heard* from a "friend" that the problem might be fixed. Here is a screenshot that "he" "sent" to me to prove it of Aftereffects with 400k dedicated to it. I think the problem is that Classic is given a percentage of your *real* ram (through X (guessing around 30-50%) and if an application goes outside of that, then boom, crash. There is no way of measuring this amount of mysterious memory allocation to classic though and I think that this is a major problem for the "still-stuck-in-classic" power users of X. (read: designers/videographers)



Nick

[jholmes]

Here's what I think I've found.
Prior to the Adobe problems, I had a wierd crashing problem which locked up the machine and necessitated me having to reinstall system 9.2.1. I had originally placed all my apps in the Applications(OS9) folder and the new install moved them all to the plain Applications folder. I've been soley running System 9 as I use Photoshop and the Adobe apps almost exclusively and I didn't want ot bounce back and forth between X and Classic.

I tried deleting pref files to no avail and finally just reinstalled all the apps. Now everything seems peachy. I'm betting that when the reinstall moved the apps it screwed something up.
I will be damn glad when Adobe releases updates to run everything in X and we can move on rather than than this halfway in - halfway out situation we have now.

[godzookie2k]

a reinstall always does wonders....


Nick