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By: Dallas Freeman » Blog Archive » For those who are having Adobe CS3 issues!

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:17:48 +0000

[…] twitter friend of mine Nick Hodge from Microsoft Australia linked me to his article with his experience of installing Adobe CS3 on his machine. At the end of it he comes to a […]

By: hodgenick

hodgenick — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:25:37 +0000

Andrew

I tend to persist with an OS install; but fresh install new major versions — or obviously, new hardware.

It’s like being able to “know” your system and what is where and why stuff isn’t working. Mac or Windows.

Then again, I am twisted that way.

Nick

By: hodgenick

hodgenick — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:07:56 +0000

I'm giving the Production Suite all a great workout next week at TechEd; and the week following in Perth.

I wonder where Audition went? Is it going to be Soundbooth Pro? For my simple audio uses, Soundbooth is going to be right on the money.

By: Leslie Nassar

Leslie Nassar — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:55:30 +0000

I downloaded the Soundbooth CS3 trial for OS X to see if it should go in the audio production stack. Install — and uninstall — was a colossal pain in the ass.

You can’t install if you’re logged in as a regular user, you can’t install if you’ve used a beta, you can’t install if you have a friggen *web browser* open. You can’t uninstall by dragging the app to the trash; no, you have to run the uninstaller which is located in Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers. Geeze.

I *love* the Soundbooth CS3 interface, but the lack of multi-track is a showstopper. So is the install process; even if Soundbooth were perfect, there’s no way I’d recommend it for widescale deployment. The support crew would have my head on a stick.

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:45:33 +0000

Actually, I installed one of the betas for Soundbooth and it completely borked the drivers for my sound card on my XP machine. Haven’t figured how to fix it yet and I’m staring down the barrel of a complete reinstall for XP.

Even though malware isn’t a problem for me, I’m beginning to think that a workflow model involving a reinstallation of Windows every few months would be good idea for security and stability. Perhaps working from an image disc of a known “good” install of OS + software … with all working data residing on an external storage server.

By: Berno

Berno — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:47:35 +0000

Young people like me (without the long IT baggage) just have to read blogs and learn from the woes of the pioneering folks like you.

Thank you for making a contribution to the knowledge network.