Updated Acrobat Pro to 8.2.4 Now it will not launch.

I'm having the same issue as well. My only solution at the moment for viewing PDFs is to use Preview or Quicklook.

I have Mac OS X 10.6.4.

Thanks PH1008 - worked for me

Time Machine saved me a lot of time and work. I replaced only the Adobe Acrobat Professional application in the the Adobe Acrobat Professional Folder, I didn't replace anything else. All original settings there.

Maybe Adobe should tell people first to use this option on a Mac. (if you have Time Machine). It's a lot easier than re-installing and getting all your original settings back.

I uninstalled Acrobat 8.2.4 (not working) and tried to install it again from an install CD but it did not work - the install wizard asked for Fireworks CS4 install CD (although I have CS3 standard!) and quit the installation. Any suggestion? Thanks a lot!

@Adobe...you have created a lot of headache and cost for your users. For those not running Time Machine (and apologies for adding to the frustration people, but there is no excuse for that!), perhaps you could post here, temporarily until you have the fix, the 8.2.3 version of just the Adobe Acrobat Professional application file. It is 860.7 MB, and it could help many users. Yes it's copyright but that file is pretty much useless unless you have all the other support folders and files, so what's the harm? Be proactive instead of reactive. It's an issue you caused, and by the sounds of it your tech people are not helping matters.

I am using CS3 and unfortunally I have updatet to this Acrobat 8.2.4 Version which wont launch. Sorry for my English, I hope you are able to understand, what I am talking about. I called the adobe support, to get some help, using OSX 10.4.11 there is no timemachine to go back to Acrobat 8.2.3. They told me that I have to reinstall the compleate CS3 to get back a working Acrobat Pro. This would mean a lot of work, all the server connections with Dreamweaver, getting all the sites running properly.… Do you have another solution for this Problem?

hopefully and very annoid

funktioniere

Yes a great move by Adobe to put us all into an extra workload and little to offer from them in compensation or even a deadline for a fix.

However followed a fix suggested on this forum and deleted 8.2.4 and replaced it (and uninstaller as this shows same version number) with 8.2.3 from my external back up disc.

Has worked fine and have tested it on several jobs, did a restart first to be safe.

Important benefit is that I did not need to delete/replace any prefs files ONLY the app itself (and uninstaller for good measure).

So saves a huge work to reinstall from v8 and deal with the laborious uodate process - again the question could be asked (as for MS Office also) as to why no update combo.

Thanks for the forum fix and further bad press to Adobe on top of this fiasco for not offering  it as a workaround.

Paul Harvey

Unfortunately no time machine back up for me. Does anybody know how I can get past the 8.1.5 software update? Thanks.

Having the same issue, has anyone found a quick fix?

I need my adobe please help!

I was caught by the same trap -- updated to 8.2.4 on a MacBook Pro (OS 10.5.8) and now Acrobat Professional won't launch.  I get the same error message ("launch another suite component") as everyone else and it doesn't work for me either.

I'm a University professor, our term is about to start, and I'm trying to update my lectures -- I don't have time for this.  If this is how Adobe works these days, I may never upgrade to the new CS -- or encouage my students to do so. These programs are supposed to be tools, not time sinks.

Needless to say I am waiting until this truly is FIXED before I attempt to reinstall. I'm a slightly more casual user, but my sympathies go out to those who are trying to get their work done.