FMCore Has Been Stopped

[Guest]

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.

[brightspring]

Yay thank you all for the help!! Saved me a trip to the freak out zone!

[sonnyharrison1]

I wasn't exactly sure what to think of what to do, but freaking out would be a good side effect.

[qweeka]

dont freak! here's the uninstaller!

qweeka@aol.com

[jessframpton]

I've read through all of these posts and they all have to do with a Suitcase Fusion issue. But I am having this problem, and I don't have any Extensis software on my computer. The only font management tool I have is Fontbook. And along the bottom of my System Preferences window in Other, I have:

Air Display, Control Center, Growl, Teleport, and Xmarks for Safari.

This is my office computer and only my second day on the job, so I'd like to nip this in the bud. Any more ideas *besides* the Suitcase issue?

[qweeka]

well, although it may seem like i know what i am talking about, alas, I am no guru.

but! if Illustrator is giving you the "FM Core has been stopped" message, then its Suitcase. Maybe someone b4 you used this computer?

I am attaching the uninstaller just in case. it doesn't hurt to run it anyway.

wow, 2nd day on the job? bummer. computer shit and the 'new guy' too...ouch.

but you know, you'll laugh about this one day. just keep saying "this too shall pass"...and if you say it enough times, viola! you'll probably have forgotten what was freaking you out!

ok, that sounded hoaky...

but i can feel the red in your cheeks and i wanted to help.

run the uninstaller!

Betsy R. Marks

qweeka@aol.com

[jessframpton]

I will try to run the installer, but I'm not seeing where I can grab the attachment. ??

[Larry G. Schneider]

Try turning off the Growl software. Seems like it was mentioned in another thread as causing a problem.

[jessframpton]

Thanks for the Growl tip. I turned it off and even deleted it from the pane, but that didn't work either. 😕