Joseph Heller would be proud.
Adobe Bridge, CS5 crashes when starting up. I downloaded Photoshop CS5 Extended, installed it on my new MacBook Air (this computer has never seen any CSx product). Installed the CS5 serial number, installed the SC4 legacy serial number, all is well. Photoshop runs fine. I installed all my Nik plugins and Bokeh Plugin. All is well. I tried running Bridge, and it crashes during the launch "The operation could not be completed. An unknown operating system error has occurred." Adobe released an update, which I downloaded, but during installation, it too crashed (couldn't perform the update and provided a link to Adobe support.
Fours hours later with Adobe. Tried:
1) Deleting the PLIST file for Bridge, no luck.
2) Tried the Option Bridge trick to reset all preferences in Bridge, no luck.
3) Created a new Admin account, logged into it, Bridge worked.
4) Adobe technical help said it is now an Apple problem since the program worked with the new admin account.
5) Apple said pound sand, it's an Adobe program, it should work regardless of which admin account.
6) Back to Adobe, talked to third level (still tier 1) person, it's an Apple problem. He suggested deactivating Photoshop, un-install Photoshop, run a clean script (which I just downloaded but haven't tried) which will wipe out any files that has to do with CS5 that the un-install program doesn't un-install (totally logical), re-download and re-install everything, again (I haven't tried this yet).
Doing a Google search for Bridge crashing while opening reveals a frightening amount of comments with people having similar problems (don't even get me started about Adobe Air).
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Arnie...