What is "Test" in Adobe Application Manager?

[Azma_Tsukimi]

Today, I launched Adobe Application Manager, because seeing how Dreamweaver was crashing, I thought there were updates. Well, it asked me for my Adobe ID, which it hadn't before, then there was a list of every Adobe CS application of mine, and a Test option on them. Well, I thought, "it's going to check for updates", so I clicked them all. Some had a Test option, while others had an Install option.

Photoshop started to download, but it was really long. Over half an hour. As the next app started downloading, I cancelled everything, thinking "is it redownloading every single program that I have?" and pressed the "Launch"(or is it "Run"? Sorry, my installation is in French, and I'm not sure what it is in English) option that had replaced the Test one on Photoshop. And it... launched Photoshop.

So I'm wondering... What the heck did it just do? Was it unable to determine whether I had those programs installed and thus decided to re-install everything over again, or what?

[Mylenium]

Was it unable to determine whether I had those programs installed and thus decided to re-install everything over again, or what?

Most likely yes. Impossible to tell, since you did not provide any further details.

Mylenium

[Azma_Tsukimi]

Uhm, further details... Right. This might be cool to give.

Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection

Windows 8 Pro, 64 bits

Uuuuuuhm... I don't think you need much else, do you?

[Jeffrey_A_Wright · Accepted solution]

Azma the option to test, or try in the English version, it to allow users to download and try the trial version of the software available through Creative Cloud.  Adobe Application Manager should be detecting the applications which are already installed but it appears in your case for a time it was not detecting the already installed applications.

If I am reading this thread properly you are back up and working is that correct?

[Azma_Tsukimi]

Oh uhm, it didn't pose a problem. Everything worked (well, mostly - Dreamweaver still has those unexplained crashes), and still works. I was just intrigued by this super long download, which I guess means Application Manager just thought I didn't have it, and wanted me to try it out. Well, unless in 30 days it tells me my trial has expired (in which case it shouldn't be too complicated to enter my license number again), I'm pretty sure I won't have any problems.

I'm just wondering if maybe this apparently new thing will -also- prevent it from seeing updates.

[Jeffrey_A_Wright]

It shouldn't prevent you from seeing updates.  You can launch the update portion of the Adobe Application Manager by going to Help>Updates in an application like Photoshop or Dreamweaver.  You can then see which updates it is looking for under the preferences section.  Please see below for screenshots of what I am referring too.

[Azma_Tsukimi]

Yes, I guess it should be fine. If I don't see any updates in a month or two, I'll come back to say it. ^^

By the way, is there a way to automate Adobe updates, so they just install themselves before I turn my computer off? Because they're normally quite large, and Adobe Application Manager has some sort of infinite priority on downloads, making it so that during an update, it's very hard to use the Internet. Everything is really long.

Oh! I was just reminded of something. Where do you report bugs? In Illustrator (Windows version), there's a script, "save for the Web, PNG-24". Well, it doesn't work before some fiddling. Indeed, when you try to launch it, it tries to look for "Macintosh HD", which obviously doesn't exist if the computer isn't a Mac, no matter what folder you define. I had to re-record the script.

[Jeffrey_A_Wright]

No you will still need to download and apply the update.  This is due to the authorization needed to apply the update.  It is possible to deploy updates to a particular system to be installed automatically but this is outside of the scope I believe you are looking for.

For bugs you can report them at https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform.  You might also bring it up in that applications forum as well.