[X4U] Adobe Apps crashing..

[Andrew T. Lynch]

A friend of mine had a similar problem with his system.  He deleted 
~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist, and this resolved his 
problem.  I suggest moving it aside rather than deleting it.  You will 
need to reset some preferences.

-Drew

On Mar 21, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Edward Hillenbrand wrote:

> On Mar 21, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Tim Kinsella wrote:
>
>> I've trashed every preference/.plist I can find related to Adobe in 
>> my Home directories...(since they launch fine under 'testaccount' 
>> user, I'm assuming it's an issue in my 'tim' home directory...right?)
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Any words of wisdom would be great.
>
> In addition to the Preferences folder, applications store data in the 
> "Application Support" folder both are inside your Library folder.  
> There should be an Adobe folder inside of there.
>
> I would rename the Adobe folder to something like ~Adobe and then 
> launch one of the applications that are crashing.  If it launches 
> without incident, trash the renamed folder, otherwise change the name 
> back to Adobe.  There is information in that folder you probably don't 
> want to delete unless absolutely necessary.
>
> -- Edward
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