CS4 + 10.6.5 - Delete Photoshop Settings file?

This sounds strange and I have not seen this.

A couple of questions:

1) Does this happen if you boot in safe mode (hold down the "shift" key when you restart)?

If it does not, then maybe some third party extension is causing problems

2) Are there any files in "/Library/Extensions"?

3) When this happen, do you see anything suspicious in the window server log?

Look in OSX Console:

- Click on Show log list

- Navigate to Files>/private/var/log/windowserver.log

4) Do you have a Wacom driver installed?

If so, is it the latest driver?

Exact same problem here, although I'm using CS5 instead of CS4. Only Photoshop seems to be affected. InDesign is running well.

I DO NOT use spaces. I couldn't figure out, what triggers this behaviour, yet. Right after starting Photoshop, everything works as expected. But rather sooner than later (maybe only after using some other apps for some time) Photoshop behaves exactly as seen in the video. Restarting Photoshop doesn't help. I have to log out and on again (or reboot the machine). System.log doesn't look suspicious, although I'm not sure I've seen errors like these before:

[0x0-0xfa0fa].com.adobe.InDesign[989] Wed Nov 17 15:48:12 Professor-Wernstrom.local Adobe InDesign CS5[989] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: _CGSFindSharedWindow: WID 471

Hey,

I have had the same problem for the last couple of days (thinking about it, it started straight after the most recent Mac OSX update). I was running CS3 but had purchased CS5 a few days prior which I was going to install but was too busy to do so.. After the problem started I removed CS3 and installed CS5 but the problem persisted, I've been looking all over for a solution, no one was able to help. I called Adobe support and the not so kind indian on the phone couldn't even understand what my problem was...

Has anyone found a solution to this? I can seem to get photoshop working for a minute or two after logging out/restarting but then it just happens again and I need to log out/restart again to get anywhere...

Any response would be great!!

Thank you!!

This is exactly what I'm experiencing as well, even in Illustrator. It's as if someone is holding down the Shift key all the time. And the funny thing is that it doesn't happen immediately. If I log out and log back in, then everything is normal. But after a few seemingly random minutes, the problem returns. I'll try what Chris suggested and see if that helps. Let us know if you manage to isolate the problem!

Try it without Spaces (we know that Spaces still has a lot of problems).

And check the OS keyboard shortcuts (which can override application keyboard shortcuts) -- turn them off as necessary.