Photoshop a no-go on Intel Mac
Update: It’s working now! See below.
I just bought a copy of Photoshop CS2 and installed it on my MacBook Pro. When I launch it, it exits immediately. Anyone else had — or better, solved — this problem? More details after the jump.
The install went without a hitch; I let it use the default values for everything. When I try running it from a terminal window, I get the following:
2007-01-22 13:37:35.017 Adobe Photoshop CS2[340] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0×181967a0 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2007-01-22 13:37:35.018 Adobe Photoshop CS2[340] *** -[NSCFString _getValue:forType:]: selector not recognized [self = 0×18195710]
2007-01-22 13:37:35.018 Adobe Photoshop CS2[340] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0×18196ae0 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2007-01-22 13:37:35.019 Adobe Photoshop CS2[340] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0×18196de0 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2007-01-22 13:37:35.020 Adobe Photoshop CS2[340] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0×18196dc0 of class NSException autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2007-01-22 13:37:35.020 Adobe Photoshop CS2[340] *** Uncaught exception: *** -[NSCFString _getValue:forType:]: selector not recognized [self = 0×18195710]
I’ve Googled around for that error message and only found one other instance of it, from a guy who had messed with his font anti-aliasing settings. I haven’t done that. The Adobe tech support pages suggest running Bridge first; that doesn’t help. Bridge itself fires up fine, though.
I’ve tried removing all the Adobe-related preferences I could find (everything with “adobe” or “photoshop” in the filename under my Library directory) but the problem still happens.
This is a Core 2 Duo MBP running 10.4.8. Any Mac experts out there have some advice?
Update: It’s working now! At the suggestion of a friend, I tried creating another user and running it from there. It worked fine. So then the trick was to figure out what the difference between my account and the test account was. It turned out to be something wrong with my global preferences file, not really sure what. Copying the test user’s file into my account made Photoshop start working for me. That’s Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist in the home directory.