[Leica] OT: Adobe CS3 beta removal

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Brian,
Just uninstall. including registry, all references to Adobe/Macromedia and
reinstall - after all how long does it take to reinstall Flash?
Cheers
Jayanand


On 4/18/07, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
>
> There is nothing off-topic about Photoshop technology, especially
> something so major as CS3.
>
> I just downloaded the CS3Clean script from Adobe. It's a Python script. My
> profession these days is the managing of people who administer computer
> systems, and in order to review and evaluate their work, I do a lot of
> script reading, including Python. The mail software that we use to talk to
> each other here on the LUG is written in Python, so I'm quite fluent in it.
>
> So I've studied this script, whose name is "CS3Clean.py".
>
> Some comments.
>
> It does appear to have been written in Japan, and some of its complexity
> comes from the localization into Japanese and Western languages with 
> respect
> to file naming and string matching. It also has some complexity because it
> needs to deinstall Macromedia products as well as Adobe products; they will
> have been installed with radically different conventions.
>
> Most of the complex part, though, is a traversal of the Windows registry
> trying to find things that need to be removed and that can be removed
> safely. It makes the assumption that if the registry keyname contains one 
> of
> ['adobe', 'macromedia', 'versioncue', 'flv' ,  'flash' , 'com.macromedia'
> , 'com.adobe' , 'acrobat' , '8.0_x86' , 'caps.db' , 'cs3' , 'backup'] then
> it is safe to delete provided that you found it in a proper place. But if
> you have installed some other program that specified a
> registry key named "flv" or "caps.db", then there /might/ be trouble.
>
> Here's my summary of whether you should stress about this Beta removal
> issue:
>
> * If you are a Mac user, have a beer. The Mac beta removal is simple and
> straightforward and will not give you problems.
>
> * If you are a Windows user and you are the sort of person who likes to
> muck about with your Registry, then be afraid, be very afraid. Kiss your
> weekend goodbye.
>
> * If you are a Windows user and
>    - you have installed only one version of Beta CS3, and never updated
>    - your Macromedia use is confined to Dreamweaver and Fireworks
>    - you have not been having Registry problems
>   then have half a beer, and say a short prayer. It will probably be fine.
>
> * If you are a Windows user, and you use Flash, and you upgraded to Vista
> after you
>   installed CS3 Beta (so that the Vista installation modified your CS3
> Beta installation),
>   then have a valium and be prepared to call Adobe Tech Support. And make
> sure your
>   files are backed up before you even think about starting this process.
>
> The Perfect Storm here is that CS3 is a merger of CS2 and Macromedia, and
> that Vista has changed a number of assumptions that were made, especially 
> by
> Macromedia, and has possibly mutated the installed software into a
> hard-to-kill monster.
>
> Brian Reid
>
>
>
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