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A fix to successfully apply the Photoshop G5 Update Apps

I ran into the same problem a few other folks have reported: Adobe's Photoshop 7.0.1 G5 Update would quit after complaining that I needed to update Photoshop 7.0 to 7.0.1 ... even though I already had. Running the 7.0.1 updater again didn't resolve the problem. Here's what did the trick:

  1. Back up your copy of the Photoshop 7.0 file.
  2. Control-click on the file and choose "Show package contents" from the context-sensitive menu.
  3. In the Contents folder, open the file Info.plist in the Property List Editor application.
  4. Twirl down the "Root" triangle to reveal the various properties.
  5. Change the string for CFBundleShortVersionString and CFBundleVersion from 7.0 to 7.0.1, and save the file.
  6. Launch the G5 updater and either (a) revel in your success, or (b) curse me for getting your hopes up.
[robg adds: I don't have the full Photoshop, so I can't test this one ... though I hope Adobe releases an enabler for Elements (but I'm not holding my breath!].
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A fix to successfully apply the Photoshop G5 Update
Authored by: speechpoet on Oct 06, '03 01:31:17PM

Someone just asked me where to find Property List Editor. It's installed with OS X Developer Tools, in the folder Macintosh HD/Developer/Applications.

If you haven't installed Developer Tools, you can still make the edits. Open Info.plist in TextEdit (it's in your Applications folder). (You're now editing a raw XML file, which is tagged kind of like HTML.) Near the very end of the file, you'll find two lines:

<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>7.0</string>

Change the second of these lines to read:

<string>7.0.1</string>

A few lines further, you'll find:

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>7.0</string>

Change the second line to read:

<string>7.0.1</string>

Save, quit TextEdit, and launch your edited Photoshop app to make sure that it's okay. Quit, and then run the G5 updater.



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A fix to successfully apply the Photoshop G5 Update
Authored by: pawliger on Oct 07, '03 01:40:39PM

Are you saying the 7.0.1 update doesn't change the version number in the Info.plist file? You can tell the true version of Photoshop 7.X when you launch - check the version listed at the bottom of the splash screen. That version is not obtained from the Info.pList file. It should show "7.0.1" if the 7.0.1 update was successfully applied.

--marc



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A fix to successfully apply the Photoshop G5 Update
Authored by: speechpoet on Oct 08, '03 11:48:10AM

That was the case for me and some others who've used this fix -- 7.0.1 in the splash screen, 7.0 in the info.plist file.



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