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1. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
m2tno Sep 1, 2011 5:56 AM (in response to Sofus Comer)You, my friend, are pure genius!
Thabk you - thank you - thank you
I cant tell you how long I have been struggling with this.
I owe you big time....
Mike
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2. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
billhdz Sep 1, 2011 6:48 AM (in response to Sofus Comer)I would have never known to try this.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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3. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
Sofus Comer Sep 2, 2011 9:21 AM (in response to Sofus Comer)Hi guys, glad it helped.
Just for you info.
For each time you reboot, you will have to manually delete the folder /macromedia in the ~/Library/Preferences/
before starting FW. Cause the macromedia folder is created each time FlashPlayer is used, which i guess it is almost all the time you browse or use similar adobe libraries like shockwave, airplay etc.
Abobe i kinda guess that this is something you should work out with Apple.
Atb Sofus
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4. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
steven@mozaic Sep 14, 2011 8:43 PM (in response to Sofus Comer)Thank you Sofus. My FW also hangs at launch and i get the beach ball. This fix nails it. You saved the day.
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5. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
m2tno Sep 15, 2011 5:03 AM (in response to steven@mozaic)You don't have to delete the whole folder. Just the macromedia/#security one.
Mike
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6. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
Sofus Comer Sep 15, 2011 5:44 AM (in response to m2tno)Hi Mike
Good to know. I was not sure if it was a specific file or the entire folder it self.
Thanks for locating the sinner.
Does anybody know if Adobe is on to a fix for this?Atb Sofus
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7. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
m2tno Sep 21, 2011 8:43 AM (in response to Sofus Comer)1 person found this helpfulI think I might have narrowed it down.
In the macromedia/#Security/FlashPlayerTrust folder a file is created by the flashfirebug extension when my Firefox browser is opened. The file flashfirebug.cfg is created.
Deleting this file fixes both the extension manager and fireworks launch problem.
Removing the extension from Firefox and deleting the cfg file solved my problem for good.
Hope this helps.
Mike
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8. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
steven@mozaic Sep 21, 2011 3:51 PM (in response to m2tno)Mike, I think you've put the final nail to the coffin on this bug. It's working for me -- FlashFireBug plugin for Firefox is the problem.
thanks a bunch for the tip.
Steven
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9. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
Sofus Comer Sep 22, 2011 1:22 AM (in response to m2tno)Hi Mike, good work. Its odd, though. I didnt have Firefox installed when the errors occured. But now I am off the trial version of FW CS5 and back to CS4´s (crashing every other day) version.
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10. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
MaureenD Nov 27, 2011 10:02 AM (in response to Sofus Comer)Thank you so much for this post! I was having this exact same issue and was at the brink of reverting back to Snow Leopard. As soon as I deleted that Macromedia folder, boom... Fireworks opened for the first time in 4 months!
However, has anyone noticed that as soon as you open Fireworks, that Macromedia folder gets recreated?? At least it did for me.
So how to I make it stay gone? Not a huge deal, but sure is a pain to have to go and delete it every time I want to run the program.
Anyway, thank you again for this answer.
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11. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
ThomasPeri Nov 29, 2011 8:43 AM (in response to Sofus Comer)I've tried everything mentioned above, but I'm still getting this:
"Fireworks can not run. An internal error occurred."
It happens when the status message in the Fireworks startup panel reads "Initializing Textures." I've searched my whole computer for "textures" hoping to be able to temporarily disable something, but I don't see anything like that in any Fireworks CS5 folders.
Any further suggestions?
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12. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
billhdz Nov 29, 2011 5:00 PM (in response to billhdz)I Deleted the entire macromedia folder in the ~/Library/Preferences/ folder and it was working for a while.
Now it stopped working again.
Strange...
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13. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
Sofus Comer Nov 29, 2011 11:54 PM (in response to billhdz)Hi Folks!
Its because the macromedia folder is recreated each time flash is used somehow.
I made an Automator App that
1) Locates the ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia
2) Moves the Macromedia Folder to the Trash
3) Runs Adobe Fireworks CS 4
So all I need to do is click this Automator App instead of the Fireworks App in my Dock, and then I am sure it will start.
(I Know that this is not a 100% cool in the end fix, but seems like Adobe are ignoring this error after several of attempts of direct action to tell them.)
Here is how to build your own automator app that does these three steps for you.
My finder is in danish, but I translated it in red text for you. Guess its easy to figure out:
Remember!!! If you are running Adobe Fireworks CS5 then choose that in step 3 instead :-)
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14. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
Sofus Comer Nov 29, 2011 11:56 PM (in response to ThomasPeri)Hi Thomas Peri
I never got an error saying "Fireworks can not run. An internal error occurred."
So maybe your error is something else.
Here it freezes and the CPU goes up to 81% apr.
But no error message.
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15. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
steven@mozaic Nov 30, 2011 12:47 AM (in response to Sofus Comer)Per my experience, the problems is FlashFireBug plugin for Firefox to be exact. And it seems this plugin creates a file within the Macromedia folder. So you first just delete the Macromedia, kill your FlashFireBug plugin, then it should work without having to keep deleting the Macromedia folder.
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16. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
ThomasPeri Nov 30, 2011 8:21 AM (in response to Sofus Comer)I ended up reinstalling Fireworks, and that fixed the problem I was having. (For now at least... Fingers crossed.)
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17. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
Sigouy Mo Jun 25, 2012 8:53 AM (in response to Sofus Comer)Thank YOU Thank YOU Sofus!
I had uninstalled and re-installed the whole CS5 but it didn't help.
You saved my life!
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18. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
cubdesign Jul 31, 2012 11:00 PM (in response to Sofus Comer)Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
I try below step for Fireworks CS6 and it was successful .
1) Locates the ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia
2) Moves the Macromedia Folder to the Trash
3) Runs Adobe Fireworks CS 6
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19. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
kreative J Sep 6, 2012 5:19 AM (in response to Sofus Comer)Fantastic! Thank you so much to both guys who found and pin pointed this issue!
This also works for CS6 too. Cant believe Adobe havn't already put something in place for this knowing that a 3rd party extension is causing one of its products to not even launch!
i salute you!!! Saved me hours and also major grief from not being able to open some layered PNGS.
Thanks
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20. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
O-Minds Oct 11, 2012 6:51 AM (in response to Sofus Comer)Hello All,
We're the authors of FlashFirebug. We thought this bug was ironed out quite some time ago. But perhaps not. If someone can answer the questions below, that would be quite helpful:
1. Does this problem still occur with FlashFirebug 4.54?
2. Does this problem happen with only MAC or also on Windows?
3. If problem does still occur with 4.54, can you search for ffbug.cfg in your home folder and paste the contents of the file here?
4. Delete the file ffbug.cfg, does the CS5 problem go away? (make sure you don't restart Firefox after deleting it, because it will recreate it).
Thanks! Looking forward to iron out this annoying bug. But need your help to do so
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21. Re: Fireworks CS5 wont start up in lion (error in preferences folder)
Steven T Oct 18, 2012 3:56 PM (in response to O-Minds)Thanks for helping with the issue and making FlashFireBug a better product. After this incident, I figured FlashFireBug itself was buggy so i stopped using it. I'm on a Mac. I don't if there has been any fix for FlashFireBug since then. If so, i may consider using it again.