I have recently discovered that use of the utility application “Clean My Mac” can break CS5′s ability to update itself. Clean My Mac, in it’s default setting, will remove international language files from applications to recover the “wasted” disk space. In most cases, this is action is harmless to the operation of your Mac. However, if you have Adobe CS5 installed (any flavor), the Adobe Updater looks for the language files to update them and bombs out.
The fix is to reinstall Adobe CS5 and reapply all patches. You can simply run the installer on the main disc without first uninstalling/unregistering the existing install. The Installer will overwrite the files and update all plists. The launch the Adobe Updater from within any app in the set and then exit the app to allow the Updater to do it’s job unimpeded. Please make sure all browsers are closed when this action is taking place.
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Right, unfortunately, Adobe check the integrity of the language files on updating, which is why cleanup causes a bit of a problem.
However, you can just uncheck the CS5 apps from the 'Language Files' module of CleanMyMac and this setting will remain there. CleanMyMac has a user selection memory for such cases.
That is absolutely correct. I am not denying the usefulness of “Clean My Mac”. The application has done a fine job of keeping my Mac Pro in top working condition OS-wise. It's just a warning to all Adobe CS5 users about this quirk with the language files that is not apparent when you go to update and start pulling your hair out when it fails for no adequately explained reason.
Sure, it is good that you pointed that out. We're actually going to look into this issue in our future updates so that all users would be able to avoid this problem easily. Or, at least, CleanMyMac will be providing them with a small alert-description.
Thanks for using the product!
That sounds like an excellent idea.
This was true for earlier versions of CS as well, when manually (not using CMM) deleting languages. Given the relatively small amount of disk space used by languages compared to all the other junk CMM found, and the fact that I rely heavily on Adobe apps, I’ll simply leave languages as they are for now.
That is exactly the advice I gave. Leave the languages in place. The folks from CMM commented that they will update their app to skip over the Adobe apps when language cleanup occurs.