Manually uninstalling Photoshop? - 09/30/12 04:49 PM
Hope this isn't a duplicate post, because I somehow managed to disappear my first try!
Photoshop CS4 started crashing erratically on my 15" MacBook Pro (OS 10.6.8) and freezing everything but my cursor, including forced quits. Long story short, I can only access my laptop in target disk mode now. I would like to avoid a clean system install if I can, and want to try manually uninstalling PShop first.
The uninstaller is not an option, so I'm hoping someone call tell me what else I need to delete in addition to the PShop & Bridge apps, themselves, to be sure I've eradicated all the bits & pieces. Adobe makes it almost impossible find any info about working with superseded versions in its online support pages, of course.
Is there any way to "deactivate" a copy of Photoshop, once it's gone? Or is that not necessary if I reinstall it on the same computer? Or is there registration data I could copy and then put back in place ex post facto?
If corrupted fonts in PShop caused the mayhem, would that create a system wide font problem which could persist after the PShop removal? Is there any reliable font-corruption-software-for-dummies which can ferret out and correct such problems? I'm afraid to mess around with fonts myself, and, alas, I'm terminally Terminalophobic.
I would welcome any and all suggestions!
Photoshop CS4 started crashing erratically on my 15" MacBook Pro (OS 10.6.8) and freezing everything but my cursor, including forced quits. Long story short, I can only access my laptop in target disk mode now. I would like to avoid a clean system install if I can, and want to try manually uninstalling PShop first.
The uninstaller is not an option, so I'm hoping someone call tell me what else I need to delete in addition to the PShop & Bridge apps, themselves, to be sure I've eradicated all the bits & pieces. Adobe makes it almost impossible find any info about working with superseded versions in its online support pages, of course.
Is there any way to "deactivate" a copy of Photoshop, once it's gone? Or is that not necessary if I reinstall it on the same computer? Or is there registration data I could copy and then put back in place ex post facto?
If corrupted fonts in PShop caused the mayhem, would that create a system wide font problem which could persist after the PShop removal? Is there any reliable font-corruption-software-for-dummies which can ferret out and correct such problems? I'm afraid to mess around with fonts myself, and, alas, I'm terminally Terminalophobic.
I would welcome any and all suggestions!