![]() ![]() So yeah, crashes happen, stuff gets corrupted. Bingo, everything worked again, and the problem never resurfaced on that Mac. Instead I fired up her Time Machine (the Mac's built-in backup scheme) and restored the contents of the FlexLM folder (buried somewhere in the system Library folder). ![]() I had one of our production girls leave me a message that "photoshop crashed on Thursday and now nothing will run." So I check out the machine and sure enough running any CS5.5 application just brings up a message about the licensing has stopped working and to reinstall." Generally speaking with the terrible state of Adobe's installers and how godawful slow they are, with a ridiculously slow update process that follows, reinstalling is a last resort for me. Whats a "bad write"? A broken or crashed application that wrote nonsense in a critical file? I advise everyone using one to re-evaluate what it is they're trying to solve by doing so, and find a better way to solve it. ![]() I do know this: Windows NEVER needs any kind of "registry cleaner". But if we could detect a correllation between the people see the problem and the specific things they do, then we could at least advise not doing them. It may even be they do stuff that's so tricky some machines don't handle it well. No one outside Adobe knows how they encrypt and where they store their activation info. There could be a fault in Adobe's own code that causes corruption of licensing data - I think that's even been confirmed for certain versions - but if that were the case in general, wouldn't everyone see some low level of loss of licensing info? In fact, it seems that some people see it again and again, while others never do - hence my question. And I've never had it forget my licensing status. I guess that's my point - what's a "bad write"? No such thing is supposed to happen - computers are not just expected to make errors, not good ones anyway. You are just one bad file write away from losing your registration data. I see it more likely an indication that the licensing scheme is periodically writing information to a file in an insecure manner, or worse, holding the file open. I also worked on Saturday without being able to launch my registered version of Photoshop CS6 all day. It was stored in yet another city from me and I did not have access to it either. This happened on a Friday and he was out of town and unable to get to the software's registration number until Monday. I work for a company that owns several stores, but only has one IT guy. I found out differently when the trial expired and my registered version of CS6 would not launch. I was not bothered by it think it was just an Adobe promo. I saw that Photoshop was launching as the Extended version after installing an update. What is happening here? Is this going to happen every time they release a minor update? How do I make it go away?" I am not renting the software via that stupid creative clod thing, I bought it the regular way. ![]() I did not ask for this, I do not want this, I bought, paid for and registered the regular version on the day it was released. Oldbalddude wrote: " Launched Photoshop CS6 this morning, and suddenly it is a trial version of CS6 Extended. ![]()
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