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barbvro
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February 4, 2012
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How can I uninstall my Photoshop CS 3 from my Mac, without an uninstaller?

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How can I uninstall my Photoshop CS3 from my Mac OS Extended (Journaled)?   It has never opened, since I increased the Mac's capacity to 2 TB.  Now I want to throw the Photoshop CS3 away and get a brand new Photoshop CS5.    There does not seem to be an uninstaller anywhere to be found.  Adobe spent an hour and a half on the phone with me and could not find a work-around.   We tried to reinstall the CS3 from the disk, but the installations failed. 

An earlier Photoshop CS2 is also on the computer and needs to be uninstalled. 

Is there a way to rescue my computer and put the new Photoshop on it?

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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February 4, 2012

You need to manually delete the caps.db (somewehre in the Library:Application Support:Adobe folder) and then you can trash the program folders. Without an existing caps.db, a new one wil lbe created from scratch and al linstalls should run as if there never was anything on the system just as conversely you should not have trouble simply deleting the old versions...

Mylenium

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barbvroAuthor
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February 5, 2012

Thanks for your input.   I don't believe that there is a caps.db on this machine, version 10.6.8.   I don't find it by checking in each of those Adobe folders, nor does the searchlight find it.   I looked it up on the Internet and it seems interesting but I don't appear to have it.     Thanks again!    --    Barbara

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