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November 16, 2003

From Panther to OS 9 and back again

I installed Panther this weekend, and one of the first things I had to do was to switch back to the little visited land of OS 9, as both Photoshop and Illustrator plainly refused to run, both quitting on startup in the new OS.

Preoccupied as I were with pinkeye and ondska I tried to troubleshoot the usual way - trashing preferences, resolving font conflicts, applying 0.1 updates, that sort of thing. But to no avail. I think I did try to search the web for an answer, but I didn’t find anything.
That was yesterday.
Today I tried all the things I tried yesterday again, and finally I found some useful information - there was other people out there with the same dilemma.

Although advice seem to focus around a complete reinstall with writing zeros whilst spanking yourself with finnish birch branches, someone hinted at a solution that was going to be slighly less painful - simply remove the Workflow folder from the Adobe folder in Application Support, located in one or more of the the Library folders - and you should be good to go.

It worked for me.

Read about the Photoshop & Illustrator Crashing Fix in Mac Forums

Posted by Nicklas at November 16, 2003 08:10 PM