Reinstall of PS 7.0.1

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oldstumpy
Jul 19, 2006
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I have recently trialled PS CS2 and intend to hold back on buying the full version.

I have just tried to reinstall my old version of PS 7.0.1 after trashing CS2 – unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work at all ! The icon is a blank page and it opens Script Editor, not PS !

I am running OSX 10.4.7

thanks for any help
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Ram
Jul 19, 2006
Use your Photoshop 7 install CD to install Photoshop 7 first, then apply the Photoshop 7.0.1 update.

Don’t forget to repair permissions before AND after the installation of Photoshop 7, as well as before and after updating to 7.0.1.
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Ram
Jul 19, 2006
I still advocate Repairing Permissions before AND after any system update or upgrade, as well as before AND after installing any software that requires an installer that asks for your password.

I have seen software installations go sour because the installer did not find everything as and where it should be.

I have also seen software installations go bad because the installer did not clean up after itself properly and did not leave everything as and where it should be.

This is just my own personal opinion and practice based on my own observations. Others may disagree and that’s OK. I can only base my routines and my advice to others on my own experience and conclusion. I don’t pretend to know why others believe otherwise.

Repairing Permissions after the fact (i. e. not immediately before and after an install) may NOT help.

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Additionally, if your machine does not run 24/7 so that it runs the daily, weekly and monthly Cron Scripts in the middle of the night as intended by Apple, run Cocktail (shareware) as well.

Cron Scripts are maintenance routines designed by Apple to run on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in the middle of the night.

If you don’t run them, you WILL run into trouble, sooner rather than later.

Here’s an excerpt from the Apple tech doc <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107388>

Mac OS X performs background maintenance tasks at certain times if the computer is not in sleep mode. If your computer is shut down or in sleep at the designated times, the maintenance does not occur. In that case, you may want or need to run these manually.
Mac OS X periodically runs background tasks that, in part, remove system files that are no longer needed. This includes purging older information from log files or deleting certain temporary items. These tasks do not run if the computer is shut down or in sleep mode. If the tasks do not run, it is possible that certain log files (such as system.log) may become very large.
Also, from: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106978>

The disk activity generated by find is a normal part of file system maintenance, used for tasks such as removing invisible temporary files that are used by the system. It is scheduled to occur early in the morning at 03:15 everyday, 04:30 on Saturdays, and 05:30 on the first day of each month.
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oldstumpy
Jul 19, 2006
Thanks for the lightening fast response(s)!

I have installed v 7.0 followed by 7.0.1.

I’m going to show my ignorence here, but I know nothing about repairing permissions. What are they and how do i do it ?!

thanks again
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Ram
Jul 19, 2006
Repair Permissions with Apple’s Disk Utility.
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oldstumpy
Jul 25, 2006
OK – we have deleted PS 7. Repaired disk permissions (nothing to repair). Reinstalled PS 7 and Run disk ulitlity to repair permissions again – (still nothing to repair).

Photoshop 7 still comes up with a blank icon and tries to open with script editor !

Any more suggetstions?
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Ram
Jul 25, 2006
<nothing to repair) … (still nothing to repair).

Never mind that. It still helps, even if no major repairs are reported.

Did you remember to trash Photoshop’s preferences before reinstalling it? Otherwise you end up right back where you started.

Have you tried creating a new account and logging in as a different user? If it works then, it means you have corruption in your account.
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Phil_Taz
Jul 25, 2006
Wait a minute….are you saying the application icon comes up blank, or a shortcut/alias to a file is blank….?
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oldstumpy
Jul 25, 2006
Hi – the actual application icon is blank. If you try and launch the application it starts up Script Editor.

I will try creating a new user as per above suggestion.

thanks again.
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Buko
Jul 27, 2006
change the name of the app to

Adobe Photoshop 7.0.app
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oldstumpy
Jul 31, 2006
Nice one Buko!

I cannot believe how simple this solution was – I just feel stupid for not trying that in the first place. A 5 second fix.

Many thanks

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