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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">I do CS3 installs on tons of client machines. I have had this problem since the beginning. It is obvious that it has to do with the first run of an Adobe product. It must gather some information about the machine for the licensing (be it MAC address, computer model, whatever) so it can register that to the software. Like mentioned before, a simple quit of the application and opening it again should get around it. You could run a post install apple script that launched it and then quit the program so you don't have to do that.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">I would say this is likely Adobe's doing since they tend to develop their products in non standard ways, and they put crap all over the place in OS X, when in my opinion they should make more self contained. I guess though that the Adobe apps probably all share some common resources so that is why they put things all over the place.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Regardless though, it still beats having to install it manually on several hundred machines.</font><br><br><br>___________________________<BR>Thomas Larkin<BR>TIS Department<BR>KCKPS USD500<BR><a href="mailto:tlarki@kckps.org">tlarki@kckps.org</a><BR>cell: 913-449-7589<BR>office: 913-627-0351<BR><BR><BR><br><br>>>> "Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS@uwec.edu> 09/11/08 10:26 AM >>><br> </p>
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It truly is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen...but you are welcome. =)<br><br>On 9/11/08 10:22 AM, "Steve Wood" <<a href="swood@integerdallas.com">swood@integerdallas.com</a>> wrote:<br><br> </p>
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It's one of those "unknowns" that we've all be complaining about.  After<br>initial install, start Photoshop.  If it asks you for a s/n, quit and<br>restart Photoshop and it should be serialized.  At least, that has worked<br>for me (thanks Craig Ernst for that fix).<br><br>Steve<br>
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