Adobe Creative Suite won't install Photoshop CS

By Michael Huang on April 18, 2007 2:58 PM | 0 Comments

A couple of days ago I installed a new hard drive to replace an 5-year old 40GB HDD in my Apple PowerBook G4.


I first imaged the old 40 using CarbonCopyCloner, replaced the old hard drive with the new one, and then used Apple's Disk Utility to copy the image data onto the new 100GB HDD. Everything seemed fine until I tried to use Photoshop CS. The program suggested I re-install. I tried to re-install using the Creative Suite package, and got the strange error. "This installer cannot be run independently. Please install this product using the suite installer."


After being puzzled by this error, I stumbled upon the solution.


It appears that for whatever reason Photoshop CS dislikes drives that are Journaled and Case-Sensitive. A MacOS Extended (Journaled) formatted drive works fine.


This error, as far as I know, only applies to Photoshop CS1. CS2 and CS3 users don't need to worry.

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