Re: Photoshop won’t start (Mac)

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Tim Smith
Jan 26, 2008
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:32:18 -0800, Tim Smith
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Running CS3 on a Mac Pro under OS X 10.5 (Leopard). It used to work just fine, then a few days ago when I would try to start it up, it quits with the error that the "file is locked". This happened after I did a "permissions repair" using OS X’s disk utility.
Well, it’s not the Photoshop app file that’s locked, and it’s not an image file that I’m trying to open. So presumably PS is trying to open an aux file that somehow got locked, or to write to a folder that is locked.
I looked in the console log, and no help there. I searched for a log file that PS might maintain, but couldn’t find one that logs startup events.I’ve searched for locked files and subfolders in the Applications folder, with no success.

I’m totally puzzled. Any help? Thanks.

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profe.ivan
Jan 27, 2008
On Jan 26, 3:33 am, Tim Smith wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:32:18 -0800, Tim Smith
wrote:

Running CS3 on a Mac Pro under OS X 10.5 (Leopard). It used to work just fine, then a few days ago when I would try to start it up, it quits with the error that the "file is locked". This happened after I did a "permissions repair" using OS X’s disk utility.

Well, it’s not the Photoshop app file that’s locked, and it’s not an image file that I’m trying to open. So presumably PS is trying to open an aux file that somehow got locked, or to write to a folder that is locked.

I looked in the console log, and no help there. I searched for a log file that PS might maintain, but couldn’t find one that logs startup events.I’ve searched for locked files and subfolders in the Applications folder, with no success.

I’m totally puzzled. Any help? Thanks.

Don`t know but this could help:

Before the "repair ", was History Log preference checked? sometimes, if this .txt file is removed Photoshop doesn`t know how to start. If so, just recreate the file.

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