Hi.
Photoshop will not start anymore and just hangs up at different states in the startup process - I´ll walk you through how it happened and what I´ve tried to fix it.
BTW I´m a Mac OSX user, current version 10.8.2.
How did it start
I was preparing 5 images in Lightroom for merging to a panorama in CS5.1 - it all went like it´s supposed to until the alignment process. It all got hung up and eventually I did a "force quit" (Command+Option+esc).
When trying to relaunch CS5 it got stuck at initializing color preferences. I force quit again and tried several times, only to see it hung up at different stages of the start up process. Then I tried to reboot my machine a couple of times, but it didn´t help it.
I then uninstalled CS5 (not erasing my preferences), rebooted, installed CS5 and tried again - still same issue.
I unistalled once again, installed a CS6 trial only to see it was the issue there as well.
I googled a lot, read many threads in this forum and it seemed to come down to my Adobe preference files. I tried to delete both Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Prefs.psp and Adobe Photoshop CS6 Prefs.psp - still same problem.
At last I uninstalled both CS5 and CS6, only this time ticking off the option of erasing all preferences as well. Rebooted, installed CS5 and the problem is still there.
I´ve tried to leave the machine for a while to see if the startup process eventually "un-hangs" and moves forward, but it only seems to "eat" my disk space and eventually I run out of disk space. At this moment I have about 30 GB left of brand new SSD drive.
I really depent on Photoshop in my everyday work and am getting desperate to find a solution - if anyone knows how to fix this, please step forward to make a fellow photographer extremely happy:)
Thomas
