Adobe patches critical flaws in Photoshop, Illustrator

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 07:06 AM

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#2 Waddy

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 08:36 AM

Photoshop CS4 is still supported by Adobe according to their website today. Adobe should do the right thing, and issue an update for those users as well.

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 08:41 AM

I don't know if Adobe even knows what "right thing" means.

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 09:07 AM

I just ran the software updater function within Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS6, and it found no new updates today.

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 10:02 AM

I have photoshop 12.0.4 x64, I downloaded the update 12.0.5 for CS5.0 (not the 5.1) and it would not complete, gave me installation failed, error code "U44M2P7". I tried the same thing on my MacBookPro and got the same error.

I'm running OS 10.7.4

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Posted 06 June 2012 - 02:30 AM

billdav, on 05 June 2012 - 10:02 AM, said:

Try the alternate update - http://helpx.adobe.c....html#id_98149. You may have updated Photoshop to 5.1 and not remember doing so. It was rather an obscure update. For what it's worth, the 12.0.5 update did work for me.

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Posted 06 June 2012 - 04:48 AM

whitedog, on 06 June 2012 - 02:30 AM, said:

billdav, on 05 June 2012 - 10:02 AM, said:

Tried the suggestion, got "update not applicable"

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Posted 06 June 2012 - 07:09 AM

billdav, on 06 June 2012 - 04:48 AM, said:

whitedog, on 06 June 2012 - 02:30 AM, said:

billdav, on 05 June 2012 - 10:02 AM, said:

Tried the suggestion, got "update not applicable"

One non-Adobe specific option is to use Disk Utility to verify your disk and repair permissions. Sometimes a permissions glitch in a root folder somewhere will interfere with the operation of one application or another. Adobe has files all over the place. If this doesn't enable the Photoshop update to run then the problem, as it often is, is with some Adobe file or another. Adobe's updates are notoriously fickle and easily derailed. This update isn't a feature upgrade but a security patch. You can probably safely ignore it if you're not prone to opening images from unknown or unreliable sources. Alternatively, if you think it's important, you can uninstall Photoshop CS5 - there should be an alias to an uninstaller in the Photoshop folder - and reinstall it. Then update Photoshop again to 12.0.4 and apply the security update. Rather than trying to individually download the CS5 updates from the Adobe web site, which can be rather confusing, use Updates under the Help menu in Photoshop. That should download each update in the appropriate order - with a bit of luck. You will have to close and relaunch Photoshop several times to get them all. It's a bother, I know, but a workaround I've had to use from time to time.