Leopard, Adobe and other unhappy couples

[Andrew Brown]

On Apr 16, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Henry McGilton (Starbase) wrote:

> On Apr 16, 2008, at 4:31 AM, Andrew Brown wrote:
>> I migrated my PB to a new MBP, and ID CS3 crashed on take-off every  
>> time. So I did a complete new install of Leopard and am just now  
>> trying to install CS3 from scratch, into a new and unused user  
>> account.
>>
>> This will leave me wanting to bring over countless bits and pieces  
>> from the PB, but certainly not the whole lot at once. I really need  
>> a program-by-program migration assistant, is there anything that  
>> could help in this direction?
>
> Are there any clues in the console log?
>
> As a long shot, is the volume or partition where CS3 lives
> formatted case-sensitive?    I stumbled across that a year ago.
> CS3 (at least at that time, with version 10.0.1) expected a
> case-insensitive file system, as, clearly, Adobe had not
> tested on a case-sensitive system.

Yes, it needs to be insensitive, like Adobe customers...

After a complete clean reinstall it seems fine, something CS3 didn't  
like must have been migrated across. But of course I am now  
discovering just how much work it is to migrate stuff over manually...

(Why is this list still reply to sender? But I suppose somebody has to  
be the last to leave a sinking ship...)

AB