Monday, September 27, 2010
Breakfast at home: 2-egg mexican tofu omelette with refried beans, organic white sharp cheddar cheese, sour cream, salsa. Preview session followup with Shirin. Distributed Photoshop CS5 Extended license keys to Eric. Lunch: organic red leaf lettuce salad with mushrooms and carrots from home, chatted with Sammie briefly during lunch, sent her a link to our web page about finding a place to live. Listserv work for Cindy. Meetings: 1-on-1 with Susie, web team meeting. Dinner at home: vegetable soup from a can. Baked caribbean banana bread. Installed Adobe CS5 Design Standard for Mac at home. Snack: a bag of Bearitos no salt microwave popcorn to which I added salt. InDesign crashed upon launch. I relaunched it. It crashed. I quit it. I started Photoshop. It crashed. I restarted the iMac. Launched InDesign. It crashed: "Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS). Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000. Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread." Photoshop CS5 works except when I quit: "Could not save Preferences because the file is locked or you do not have the necessary access privileges. Use the Get Info command in the Finder to unlock the file or change permissions on the file or enclosing folders." I launch Illustrator CS5. It works. I quit it. No error. I relaunch it. It crashes: "Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT). Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000. Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread." and this crash causes Photoshop CS5 to crash as well: "Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV). Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000. Crashed Thread: 4." Acrobat Pro 9 has worked consistently, however. I thought I waited long enough after CS5's release. I guess I was wrong. This is the worst software experience I've ever had.