Life is grand

It took 6 hours spread out over one day to install Adobe CS3 Design Premium on Mac OS X. 6 highly frustrating hours.

I downloaded the 2.7GB file in less time than it took to install the software.

To cut a long story short; uninstall every scrap of Adobe software you have on your system before attempting to install CS3. And that includes Macromedia software and most importantly (thanks to Jamie Good for this tip) the Flash plugins for your browsers. That last bit was the key for me. The install failed everytime until in desperation I nuked Flash from Firefox and Safari. The install worked after that. How utterly daft!

I wish Adobe didn’t create their own installers for their products on Mac OS X. This isn’t Windows, you don’t need an installer. Just let me drag Photoshop into Applications, please. That works for almost every other single piece of software for Mac OS X.

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