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September 23, 2009
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FMCore Has Been Stopped

  • September 23, 2009
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I recently upgraded my Mac OS to the wonderful 10.6, or Snow Leopard as it is called. Now, I receive an alert message when opening Illustrator CS3. The specific alert message is:

"FMCore has been stopped. Please start it from the System Preferences pane and then relaunch Adobe Illustrator CS3."

Normally, I would completely understand what to do here; go to System Preferences and start FMCore. But, I can't find FMCore anywhere. Now what?

I reinstalled CS3 from the disc, hoping that would "repair" FMCore, but it didn't fix the problem. And I've searched high and low for an answer before posting here. But, apparently my problem is unique enough that nobody is talking about it.

Can anyone advise me on what I could/should do from here? I appreciate any help you might offer.

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    Correct answer Harron_K_Appleman

    Toward the bottom of the System Preferences panel, you should see Suitcase Fusion. Click on it and turn on the core. You should probably also select turn on at startup. You might have to log off and relog back on before it works.

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    MVD_Group_BV
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    February 4, 2010

    This is great, thanxs...

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    Anonymous
    November 3, 2009

    just updated to fusion 2 as well and got this error... Would have never know that the FMCore relates to this problem with Fusion, not too sure about this program yet, just getting aquainted with it...

    Thanks so much for the help! Although production was down for an hour because I could find no info on this throughout restarts and maintenance apps... uhhhhh i love blogs like this...

    ya'll rock!

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    Harron_K_Appleman
    Inspiring
    September 23, 2009

    Are you using Suitcase Fusion 2 by any chance?

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    Anonymous
    September 23, 2009

    I did install Suitcase Fusion last night to see if I liked it since I've also been having trouble syncing fonts with Fireworks, but I haven't used it. Is that the problem? Would simply uninstalling Suitcase be the fix?

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    dodger50
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    March 9, 2010

    Toward the bottom of the System Preferences panel, you should see Suitcase Fusion. Click on it and turn on the core. You should probably also select turn on at startup. You might have to log off and relog back on before it works.


    I suffered exactly the same problem.

    Been running CS3 on a Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 with no issues at all with Suitcase Fusion. Suitcase would never quit though and had to be forced quit at each shutdown.

    Then I upgraded Suitacse Fusion 2...

    FM Core stopped (have tried you fix thanks)

    Illustrator now will not allow any files to be saved as .AI - only .EPS

    Can't copy paths from the clipboard into Photoshop - keeps reporting an error

    InDesign won't allow keeps reverting to inches in the Units Preferences, despite being reset each time..

    Excel and Word kept telling me fonts were corrupt and took ages to start up

    I've now upgraded to Leopard and seubsequently to 10.5.8 which is as far as I can go with this Mac.

    I'm worried that my files will be corrupted when I save them...

    Any ideas? Anyone in the great Adobe user community? Help....

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