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April 19, 2015
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Adobe Premiere and After Effects CS6 installer failed to initialize on Mac Book Air

  • April 19, 2015
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Hi everybody,

I'm trying to install Adobe Premiere and After Effects CS6 for at least a month now.

I have downloaded the .dmg file at the Adobe Website and it starts to initializing the installer, then a error show up:

"The installer could not initialize. Download the Adobe Support Advisor."

There is no Adobe Support Advisor when I clicked on the link. "The Adobe Support Advisor has been discontinued" (http://www.adobe.com/support/loganalyzer/)

I've tried this many times, but every time being a failure.

EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)

Report generated 19 de abril de 2015 16:29:58 BRT

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Click the [Click for support] links for help with non-Apple products.

Click the [Click for details] links for more information about that line.

Hardware Information: ℹ️

    MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013) (Technical Specifications)

    MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir6,2

    1 1.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core

    4 GB RAM Not upgradeable

        BANK 0/DIMM0

            2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

        BANK 1/DIMM0

            2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

    Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

    Wireless:  en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

    Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 93

Video Information: ℹ️

    Intel HD Graphics 5000

        Color LCD 1440 x 900

System Software: ℹ️

    OS X 10.10.3 (14D131) - Time since boot: 0:0:38

Disk Information: ℹ️

    APPLE SSD SD0128F disk0 : (121,33 GB)

        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB

        Macintosh HD (disk1) /  [Startup]: 120.10 GB (11.53 GB free) (Low!)

            Encrypted AES-XTS Unlocked

            Core Storage: disk0s2 120.47 GB Online

USB Information: ℹ️

    Apple Internal Memory Card Reader

    Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️

    Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Gatekeeper: ℹ️

    Anywhere

Kernel Extensions: ℹ️

        /Library/Application Support/Avast/components/fileshield/unsigned

    [loaded]    com.avast.AvastFileShield (2.1.0 - SDK 10.10) [Click for support]

        /Library/Application Support/Avast/components/proxy/unsigned

    [loaded]    com.avast.PacketForwarder (2.0 - SDK 10.10) [Click for support]

        /Library/Application Support/VirtualBox

    [loaded]    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.3.16) [Click for support]

    [loaded]    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.3.16) [Click for support]

    [loaded]    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.3.16) [Click for support]

    [loaded]    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.3.16) [Click for support]

Launch Agents: ℹ️

    [not loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist [Click for support]

    [running]    com.avast.update-agent.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.userinit.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist [Click for support]

Launch Daemons: ℹ️

    [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.init.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.uninstall.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.update.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist [Click for support]

    [not loaded]    org.virtualbox.startup.plist [Click for support]

User Launch Agents: ℹ️

    [loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.home.userinit.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]

    [not loaded]    org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist [Click for support]

User Login Items: ℹ️

    iTunesHelper    Aplicativo  (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

    Dropbox    Aplicativo  (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

    FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 17.0.0.169 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

    Flash Player: Version: 17.0.0.169 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

    Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10

    SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

    DirectorShockwave: Version: 12.1.3r153 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

    JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 8 Update 31 Check version

User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

    npsf_cef: Version: sf 3.3.2.1 [Click for support]

Safari Extensions: ℹ️

    Avast Online Security

3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️

    Flash Player  [Click for support]

    Java  [Click for support]

Time Machine: ℹ️

    Skip System Files: NO

    Auto backup: YES

    Volumes being backed up:

        Macintosh HD: Disk size: 120.10 GB Disk used: 108.57 GB

    Destinations:

        HD Hayra [Local]

        Total size: 499.75 GB

        Total number of backups: 3

        Oldest backup: 2014-09-04 21:52:41 +0000

        Last backup: 2015-01-18 03:21:42 +0000

        Size of backup disk: Excellent

            Backup size 499.75 GB > (Disk size 120.10 GB X 3)

Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️

        31%    com.avast.daemon

        17%    lsregister

         5%    identityservicesd

         3%    WindowServer

         2%    coreservicesd

Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️

    147 MB    com.avast.daemon

    103 MB    Spotlight

    77 MB    Dropbox

    73 MB    ocspd

    60 MB    com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️

    352 MB    Free RAM

    1.84 GB    Active RAM

    1.47 GB    Inactive RAM

    628 MB    Wired RAM

    1.96 GB    Page-ins

    12 KB    Page-outs

Diagnostics Information: ℹ️

    Apr 19, 2015, 04:27:45 PM    Self test - passed

    Apr 19, 2015, 02:41:40 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/com.avast.daemon_2015-04-19-144140_[redacted].cpu_resource.diag [Click for details]

    Apr 17, 2015, 12:00:21 AM    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/iMovie_2015-04-17-000021_[redacted].crash

    Apr 16, 2015, 11:59:35 PM    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/iMovie_2015-04-16-235935_[redacted].crash

    Apr 16, 2015, 11:01:55 PM    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/XPCKeychainSandboxCheck_2015-04-16-230155_[redacted].crash

    Apr 16, 2015, 09:39:44 PM    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2015-04-16-213944_[redacted].crash

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    1 reply

    Atul_Saini
    Legend
    April 20, 2015

    Hi Thomas,

    Kindly try the below mentioned link.

    Error: "Installer failed to initialize" | Windows

    Thanks,

    Atul Saini

    Participant
    April 20, 2015

    Actually, I'm having problem on OS X. Is there any suggestions for this operating system.

    Atul_Saini
    Legend
    April 23, 2015

    Hi Thomas,

    Kindly check the the Solution 2 on the link mentioned above.

    Thanks,

    Atul Saini