chris

I finally “repaired” Photoshop and Illustrator after reading this tip.

Good stuff. After downloading SQLite Browser, I edited the entries with Photoshop to change the paths to point to “/Applications”, the original install path.

Here’s the description of the problem:

I installed the Adobe CS3 Suite on my external 1TB storage. I then realised that I needed some Apps to be on the computer itself. And you cannot decide a separate location for each application in the installer.

So I copied Photoshop and Illustrator to my computer harddisk.

This resulted in a dialog that says “Application has moved.” every time I start the application. It asks to “Repair Now” or “Cancel”. “Repair Now” does nothing.

The dialog is forever reoccurring. And it prevents me from opening files directly when Photoshop is not already running. I noticed it also causes the launch of the application to be very very slow.

Anyway, here’s how I did it.

Pre SQLite steps:

• Install SQLite Browser. Link is above.
• Copy caps.db found in “/Library/Application Support/Adobe/caps” to the Desktop.
• Duplicate the file so you keep a copy of the original. (in case anything goes wrong)

1. Load caps.db from the Desktop.
2. Go to the “Browse Data” tab.
3. Select “payload_data”.
4. Photoshop and Illustrator are located in the last few entries, so you have to go to the second page.
5. Look for “Photoshop” in the value and check the left side for the id that matches it.
6. Change all occurrences of the paths that are incorrect to the moved location. In this case, there are three occurrences under the same id so I changed them to “/Applications” from “/Volumes”.