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DaveH5
Inspiring
December 21, 2023
Answered

Muse not running after Creative Cloud Desktop app update

  • December 21, 2023
  • 31 replies
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After the latest update to version 6.1.0.587 my copy of Adobe Muse will no longer open.

It partially loads, and then just closes.

In the Windows 10 logs I'm seeing -

 

Application: Muse.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: exception code c0000005, exception address 0000000000DEE917

 

Followed by -

 

Faulting application name: Muse.exe, version: 2018.1.1.6, time stamp: 0x5d3ed771
Faulting module name: Muse.exe, version: 2018.1.1.6, time stamp: 0x5d3ed771
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000060e917
Faulting process ID: 0x3150
Faulting application start time: 0x01da33a19cf3e497
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Muse CC 2018\Muse.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Muse CC 2018\Muse.exe
Report ID: 8266414e-2cfd-4801-b0e4-a5257678bd62
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

 

Anyone any idea why this is happening?

I have uninstalled and reinstalled Muse and that makes no difference.

This is a big problem as I need to update one of my Muse websites.

 

And please, DON'T just tell me that Muse is now unsupported and obsolete and I should be using something else, I'm well aware of that!

I have carried on using Muse until I can find something better, which I haven't yet, and it has always worked fine up until now.

I haven't knowingly made any changes which would prevent it from working, so why has it suddenly apparently failed?

Thanks, Dave.

 

31 replies

New Participant
January 2, 2024

Thanks very much for a workaround. I was convinced Muse failing to start was the result of a change in the Creative Cloud app. I was about to create a bootable USB drive containing an older version of Creative Cloud and then turning off internet access when booting to the USB drive until I could disable updates to Creative Cloud. I'm quite sure this approach would work but repairing Creative Cloud and immediately starting Muse is a usable workaround. Hopefully, Adobe will fix this problem. I'm also wondering if disabeling Creative Cloud processes in the Windows Task Manager before starting Muse would work.

kglad
Adobe Expert
January 2, 2024

@djames68 

 

yes, it would.

o2centre
New Participant
January 1, 2024

I am experiencing the same problem—"Adobe Muse CC quit unexpectantly"—on an iMac - OS 12.6 Monterey. This is the 2018 version. It was functioning fine until December 16, 2023. No known system updates had been made. I downloaded Muse from CC Older Applications and the same thing. I can only surmise this is on Adobe's end. Is anyone else still using Muse 2018 on Mac?

kglad
Adobe Expert
January 1, 2024

@o2centre 

 

did you apply one of the work-arounds?

Participating Frequently
January 1, 2024

I did- I logged in as "wynswhirld" shortly after my post above and found the uninstall/repair of Adobe CC while launching Muse. Thank you. 

Participating Frequently
December 30, 2023

Hi, Dave. I spent a LOT of time searching for a Muse replacement. Settled on Blocs and have been very happy with the choice.

DaveH5
DaveH5Author
Inspiring
December 30, 2023
quote

Hi, Dave. I spent a LOT of time searching for a Muse replacement. Settled on Blocs and have been very happy with the choice.


By @samsdadgraphics

 

Thanks, that's useful to know, I will have a look at it!

I know others have moved onto other substitutes, but my main worry is exactly how do you move the site over to another authoring platform?

This is off-topic for this thread of course, but as nothing but Muse will open a Muse site file, the only way I can think that you'd move a site to something else would be to export the site as HTML, and then just open those HTML pages in the new authoring software. Is that it?

How would the HTML files find all the other files that they depend on to render the pages?

MediaGraphics
Known Participant
December 27, 2023

Hello All,

I'm the Admin over at the Adobe Muse forum on Facebook. One easy to find and read forum that has remained fairly active since Adobe shut down the Muse specific forum over here. 

Feel free to participate over there. I am popping in every day to approve member requests.

 

Best,

Lance Evans

DaveH5
DaveH5Author
Inspiring
December 28, 2023

I just joined.

I assume it's the 'Adobe Muse Support' group.

My application to join didn't seem to need approval, it just went straight through.

Thank you!

Participating Frequently
December 29, 2023

👍

Participating Frequently
December 24, 2023

Hi DaveH5, chark724, kglad,
tried the 2 options activity monitor and firefault but it doesn't work. The adobe sync keeps comming back what I do not understand fully. Excuse me for my gramma in English as it is not my native laguage. I have many other Adoby apps needed to do my work as a graphic designer. Are there any other options besides installing an previous version of the ACC app? That seems rather difficult. I found a topic on the internet wich says that older versions can work next to the 2024 latest version wich causes the trouble. That doesn't work either although I do not fully understand why a previous version doesn't work aftel installing. Where did it go on my Macbook Pro. https://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cc-version-control.html

Thnx in advance

Aad

DaveH5
DaveH5Author
Inspiring
December 24, 2023

Sorry, I don't know anything about how to do this sort of thing on a Mac, I've never used one.

I would actually be very surprised indeed if you can have two versions of the Desktop app installed at the same time.

I guess the 'nuclear option' would be to uninstall the Desktop app completely to enable you to run Muse.

Muse will run perfectly happily without it.

You will probably get an error message when you try to uninstall it, saying that you can't as you have CC apps which need it. In that case, you will have to use the uninstaller program to do it.

See here.

Participating Frequently
December 22, 2023

Same thing happened to me. I'm on a Mac. I shut off disk access to Adobe Creative Cloud and everthing works fine, fonts included.

Participating Frequently
December 22, 2023

Yes, shutting off disk access to CC lets you boot up app, but my bad, type kit doesn't work, but you can use system fonts. Unfortunately they are uploaded as bitmap images. What a load of crap from Adobe, they say you can use Adobe Fonts in other applications yet they don't even support it in their own. I just reupped my subscription and now I feel totally ripped off.

New Participant
December 22, 2023

sorry for this question, but how do you "shut off disk access" on a mac, OS big sir?

thanks

Participating Frequently
December 21, 2023

same error on my end .

Faulting application name: Muse.exe, version: 2018.1.1.6, time stamp: 0x5d3ed771
Faulting module name: Muse.exe, version: 2018.1.1.6, time stamp: 0x5d3ed771
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000060e917
Faulting process id: 0x11e8
Faulting application start time: 0x01da341ddc428f78
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Muse CC 2018\Muse.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Muse CC 2018\Muse.exe
Report Id: 6523975e-5043-4802-951c-858168710783
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

DaveH5
DaveH5Author
Inspiring
December 21, 2023

Thanks everyone.

I am now very worried to hear that other people are seeing this too.

I thought it might have been a problem with the last update for Windows 10, messing up the .NET system, and I eventually did a repair reinstall of Windows, but no difference.

It looks as if it actually was the last update to the CC Desktop app which messed things up.

I assume this was not deliberate, as although Muse has been out of support for a number of years now, Adobe have never said that it will be disabled from working at any point. In fact, as I am still paying them for it every month, it would be quite outrageous if they did deliberately stop it working!

I think this has happened by accident, but that doesn't help anyone that still updates websites regularly using Muse!

Should I open a support case, on the grounds that the fault is almost certainly with the CC Desktop app, not with Muse itself?
Thanks, Dave.

 

Participating Frequently
December 21, 2023

same here , i need to update sites , big problem on my end . hopefully adobe realizes it broke the adobe muse from working properly and do a fix or work around.

Participating Frequently
December 21, 2023

forgot to mention i am using windows 10 not upgraded. so i am not at 11

Participating Frequently
December 21, 2023

brother glad you posted on this . this is exactly happening to me today. same error. and was working all good days ago. i used ot contantly. hope someone has a fix for this

Varachaud
Inspiring
December 21, 2023

Hello,

i'm in the same trouble; on Windows 11 until the end of november it was perfectly fine (even if Muse is not supported by adobe ....).
Muse is probably the best for graphic designer to build a website in a minute; but yoou know that for sure.

Well, when i close all the Adobe applications on my computer i can start and work with muse so i think the probleme doesnt come from windows or something like taht; it cames directly from adobe with the last update who created somes bugs.
So if someone at Adobe could help us to fix that

 

Thanks by advance

kglad
Adobe Expert
December 21, 2023

adobe announced no support for muse years ago.

Varachaud
Inspiring
December 21, 2023

i know, since many years .... but because it was fully working until the middle of december 2023... i am, we are, very sad.