Reinstalling adobe 5.0 in MAC OS 9.2

[Richard_W_Levine@adobeforums.com]

Much need some help as Adobe no longer offers even paid support program for this.
Need to know how to uninstall my present Adobe 5.0.5 and reinstall new from my Adobe 5.0 CD.
They previously had a document 323319 that covered this, but is no longer available.

Can anyone help?

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

Richard,

Just delete the program folder and re-install from your original
disks.

Mike

[Gregory_Gans@adobeforums.com]

I have almost the same problem but I am not deleting another Acrobat. Have tried to install Acrobat 5.0 on a Mac Classic OS 9.2 on a G3 that also runs OS 10.2.9. I went into 9.2.1 sysytem, set the extension manger to a few extensions, installed the Acrobat 5.0, then restared. I reset the Extension Mgr. to the working set. But the Acrobat, although it shows up as installed in the Folder, does not have an icon in the folder and I am unable to start it. can you help?

Gregory

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

Try updating to 5.0.5

Mike

[Richard_W_Levine@adobeforums.com]

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Reinstalling adobe 5.0 in MAC OS 9.2

I was able to find this in my old mail files from Adobe-when they still
supported OS 9.

I followed it, then reinstalled Acrobat 5 from my CD-and it now works fine.
It is a little tedious, but most files are easy to locate using the "Find"
action under the "File" options at the top of your screen.

You must delete all of these old files before you reload Acrobat 5, or it
just don't work. After you do, it reloads fine.

Pass this along to anyone with a similar problem.

Richard

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Adobe Systems Technical Document 323319
Title: Manually Removing Acrobat 5.0 from Mac OS 9.x

To manually remove Adobe Acrobat 5.0 from Mac OS 9.x, do the following:

Note: This procedure does not remove shared files that may have installed
with Acrobat, including color management files (*.icc and *.csf files),
Apple QuickTime 4.0, and components such as SVG Viewer.

1. Quit Acrobat.
2. Move any personal files (for example, PDF files) from the Documents:
Acrobat User Data folder and the Adobe Acrobat 5.0 folder to another
folder.
3. Delete the following folders and files:
-- Adobe Acrobat 5.0 folder
-- Acrobat User Data Folder in the Documents folder
-- AdobePS Components folder (AdobePS 8.7) or Adobe PS Read Me Files
folder (Adobe PS 8.6)
-- PDFViewer in the System Folder: Internet Plug-Ins folder (if
Microsoft Internet Explorer is installed)
-- PDFViewer in the Netscape Communicator: Plug-ins folder (if Netscape
Communicator is installed)
-- The following files in the System Folder: Extensions folder:
- Adobe Printing Library files
- AdobePS files
-- The following files in the System Folder: Extensions: Printer
Descriptions folder:
- Acrobat Distiller PPD files (including any Asian Language
Distiller PPD files)
- Custom Page
- Virtual Printer
- Watermark
-- DistillerHose file in the System Folder: Extensions: Printing
Plug-ins folder
-- The following items in the System Folder: Preferences folder:
- Acrobat folder
- Acrobat WebCapture Cookies file
- Acrobat WebCapture Prefs file
- Adobe Acrobat 5 Prefs.plist file
- DistillerLib Helper shortcut
-- AdobePS Prefs file in the System Folder: Preferences: Printing Prefs
folder.
-- The following files from the desktop:
- Create Adobe PDF
- Virtual Printer icons
4. Empty the trash.
5. Restart the computer.

end of document

[Gregory_Gans@adobeforums.com]

Mike,

Found a PDF file & opened it so that Acrobat had to come up; then wiped clean the doc. and saved it on my Desktop to use as an "Alias", which was not the best. Then using Find as Richard suggested I was able to find the actual program & create an Acrobat Alias. So, that's it now. Thanks.
Greg