David Smeringe weblog

As soon as Adobe CS4 was released we got our hands on it. Since I’ve been doing quite a lot Flash things lately I was hoping the new version would reveal some greate new features. However after trying it for couple of weeks now, I can only summarize the experience as; grumpy. To begin with Flash crashes for me when opening most of my old cs3 files, doesn’t recognize an old flash project file (.flp), crashes totaly if I’m to fast clicking around (hey.. it’s fun to click around with the mouse). The last behaviour is the same for the other nifty tools such as Illustrator and Fireworks.

They die right in front of me leaving me with a broken (long-time-since-last-save) file. Some say it’s about fonts, some say it’s about somethingelse. I saw someone who solved it by buying a new computer..

I contacted Adobe in for the subject, posted an error report and gave them full dumps of my machines current state.. getting the reply to go through a bunch of help yourself links with twenty steps each! Things like that make me grumby.

Anyway.. I’ve tried reinstalling the entire CS4 premium package (uninstall and install taking for ages) without success.. and yeah. one last thing.. Acrobat reader now crashes if I try to open a pdf link within the (a/any) browser. Thanks..

regards,
A grumpy web developer

Recently I wasn’t able to start up my Eclipse (vaugly remembering having an X-hangup – x-windows crach I mean). All I got was a small error dialog with a reference to eclipse log file containing huge traceback of java exceptions.. I didn’t have the time or energy to trace this so I swaped to jEdit for a while.

Sooner or later one has to deal with the problems. The later was today.. My method became deleting each plugin path under [workspace path]/.metadata/.plugins/

The solution was quite simple.. I removed the file .snap in the [workspace path]/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/ path and it started working again!

I’m no expert in how Eclipse handles it’s workspace data, but apparently I lost associated projects.. ..but that’s that not so tuff to add again.