Help, please! Cannot open illustrator cs2 - tried as far as I know!

I use sick cs2 on my mac with leopard and 2 days it does not start up to - I get the "...". unexpectedly quit... "message. I checked for corrupted fonts and trashed the prefs file as described in other posts. It does not open if I try with a different account on mac but I have only a handful of fonts and it does not solve the problem. I download the trial for free cs4 now (still holding) because I have an urgent project - is - this wise? should I uninstall cs2? Thanks for your time!

Hi obvious

Here is a list of the places Illustrator puts preferences:

  • /Users/ [user] / Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS3 settings
  • /Users/ [user] / Library/Preferences/Adobe Save For Web AI 12.0 Pref.
  • /Users/[user]/Library/preferences/com.Adobe.Illustrator.plist

first try the plist file, you can trash and it will regenerate itself. Others need a little more care when trashing. I recommend making a copy of it there first, move the copy to a safe place and then trash the originals. If it does not help, replace them with copies, so you don't run the risk of losing some of the parameters.

Note, this is for CS3, but apart from the differences between the versions, the path should be the same.

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