Intel Mac major crash problems

[Joe_Ligotti@adobeforums.com]

Same pattern here - Mac Pro 2.0; start InD; get some work done; crash; try to start the app and pick up where I left off; crash, crash, crash - until I restart, get some work done, crash ...

I won't bore you with descriptions of the hours of troubleshooting, reinitializing, reinstalling, diagnostic testing, etc I've done. I will, however, speculate that:

- 2GB of memory (which is what I have) is probably not enough to feed Rosetta on a production machine running the current Adobe apps

- we will be seeing OS update within the next week or so

[John_Goodchild@adobeforums.com]

I don't know if this is relevant, but I was having major crashes in all Adobe apps on an Intel iMac. The culprit turned out to be LinoType Font Explorer X 1.0.1. After I removed it and disabled the auto-activation plug-ins, all of my Adobe apps started behaving normally (but much slower due to the emulation.) I have been playing with Font Explorer 1.1 and the crashing seems to be a lot less frequent.

[julie_jenks@adobeforums.com]

Simple answer - don't use Intel Macs with Creative Suite. It just won't work - particularly with the iMacs it seems.

Zaid summed it up perfectly "It was a wrong choice I am afraid when you switched to the new platform".

If Adobe say their software won't work, why do so many people seem to think that they know better...

[Peter_Truskier@adobeforums.com]

It just won't work - particularly with the iMacs it seems.




This is simply not true. The problem is apparently a bit more complicated than that. Not that I'm necessarily recommending it, but people are doing it successfully.

[Joe_Ligotti@adobeforums.com]

As one of the people experiencing some instability on my new Mac Pro, I want to make it clear that I would have purchased my system regardless - instability and all. Having upgraded from a G4/733 and a dying dinosaur of a monitor, I could crash applications a dozen times a day on my new system and still be dramatically more productive than before.

I also want to say that I have not reached any final conclusions on the cause of my problems. I use current versions of several 3rd party enhancements (Linotype Font Explorer; Default Folder; You Control Desktops; Eudora; Silverfast scanner software) - not to mention dozens of fonts - that could be contributing to, if not fundamentally causing, the symptoms I described. It could be one (or none) of these; it could be a subtle interaction between two of them; it could be a corrupt system-level preference etc. etc.

I just don't know yet.

My point is that troubleshooting the cause - the real, basic cause - of a complex and seemingly random pattern of application crashes is sometimes extremely difficult to do. All an ambitious end user like me can do is start with the basics, work his way carefully up through the variables, and try not to shoot from the hip when it comes to his conclusions.

So what I really want to say, in fairness to Apple & Adobe, is that the integrity of my troubleshooting skills is, at this point, at least as worthy of scrutiny as Rosetta or InDesign or any other crashing application. Please keep that in mind if you are thinking about upgrading - and try to be as confident as I am that these front-line glitches will be quickly ironed out by cooperative troubleshooting.

[Marco_A_SantaMaria@adobeforums.com]

If the onlyu applicaitons that are crashing are Adobe's, I would probably suggest checking your fonts.
Now Adobe did not say their applicaitons would not run on Intel, just tha thye would not suggessted or give any thecnical support because of the problems with Rossetta.
I am running InDesign CS2 on a 20" iMac 2 GHz Intel Core Duo at home. It is faster than my G4 450 Cube, so I guess in this case upgraing was a good thing for me. From start I new aboiout the glitches with Rossetta and Adobe, so I can not complaint why my applicaitons might not work as expected, not that we should not vent once in a while to release steam. I also use FEX for font management do not experience that many crashes as some people do. The reason I say to check fonts is because I have not loaded too many fonts in my system, I have just the basic, what the computer came with, and a set of Adobe OpenType, 100 OT, plus the one were insstalled by Microsoft applicaitons.
The versions I am using are: OSX 10.4.7, FEX 1.1, InDesign 4.0.4