A similar thing is happening to me, too, but the icon doesn’t even show in the doc. The menu item just blinks and nothing happens. Selecting Help > Updates... in any of the CS6 applications also does nothing.

I'm having the exact same problem. Did you manage to get a resolution at all?

[Edit] : I found a way around this. I opened the Application Manager through Launch Pad instead of using the menu bar icon, and it opened, found all the updates and let me install.

I was able to resolve my problem, although I’m not exactly sure how. I did suspect that I was running an old version of Adobe Updater. I attempted to uninstall it, but I continued to get update notifications in the menu bar. Clicking the Open Updater item from that menu still wouldn’t work.

I eventially got it to work by restarting my computer so that the updater in the menu bar was gone. I then launched Photoshop CS6 and went to Help > Updates... and it launched the Application Manager. It seemed to find additional updates and they all ran fine.

I’m not sure why it worked this time and not the other times that I tried it.

I’m still experiencing this problem. I submitted a bug report to Adobe just now, but I recieved no trouble ticket number or email confirmation. I’ll post an update here if I hear anything from them.

In the mean time, I have found a pretty reliable workaround. The update check seems to run when you first start up your computer for the day. If it runs and shows updates in your menu bar, you can get the updates to run if you:

1. Restart your computer
2. Launch one of your CS suite applications like Photoshop
3. Select Help > Updates ... from the menu.
4. The updater should run and you should be able to install the applications.

This trick has been working well for me for the past few months. Good luck!

@p4n1k This doesn’t work. Most of us already have that icon in our status bar. It seems to be the root of the problem. It provides a shortcut to the Adobe Application Manager, which is the application that will not run on our computers. It crashes on launch if the AAM Updates Notifier has updates.