And us poor Windows users reply, "Yeah, so? What's new about that?"

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removed my beta and CS2, used app zapper, made sure prefs are gone and made usre the application support for the app is gone. Just a general thing i do when removing all applications, had no problems with my student version of CS3 :-)

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Adobe cause their fair share of problems for Mac users (particularly Acrobat's hijacking of the system), but having a go at them for an unsatisfactory user experience when uninstalling beta software is a little unfair.

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The script didn't even work for me. It said "Application not running", or something like that. No documentation to explain why. : (

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hey liam - or anyone with a premium or student version of CS3 - could you tell me the final build number of photoshop? i'm curious if the student version is any different! thanks.

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never mind the beta mishap - I took around what and how things are installed - ALOT of redundant data is placed on your hard disk. They could easily have made one location for the Internationalisation files instead of in each *.app/resources directory. I figure to have cleaned up about 200mb of excess shte.

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build number on the college machines (premium) and my student are the same, thee only difference is with my license it is illegal to do any commecially paid work. Which simply means i cannot earn money from CS3 legally, as premium allows work to be commercially published legally. Thats the only difference.

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Liam...

Are you sure about that? This is from Adobe's FAQ on purchasing Education versions of its software:

"You can use Adobe Education software (any title!) to produce commercial/professional paid-for work when you leave school, or even while you are in school. In this regard, Adobe does not limit how student software is used. So students can use it to learn and to make money!"

http://www.adobe.com/education/purchasing/faq.html

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That education policy is rare, I've only seen Adobe have such an enlightened policy. Usually most commercial software sold as a student edition is restricted to non-commercial uses.

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Calexico... thank you so much for pointing that out to me, i was always under the impretion from my tutors that it could not be used commercially... i wonder if my student license of maya can be used commercially... hmmmm

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this was pretty weak on adobe's part. i had trashed my CS3 beta months ago and there was no warning then about this little snafu so when i installed CS3 i got the lovely conflict message. being the nerd that i am i went through and found all references to CS3/photoshop/adobe/bridge/etc... and deleted them, but had to eventually call customer support who ran me through the byzantine number of folders/files that CS3 installs. it is an absurd mess of crap that CS3 installs, flex frameworks (for photoshop?) and dozens of other files that you'd never know were related to photoshop.

disappointing to see we're heading towards windows uninstalls :(

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I unistalled the beta some days ago and since then I keep trying to install PS final but it keeps not installing... doesn't even say why...the script is seems to fast to be doing something and doesn't give any feedback... =\
meh... FireWorks does the same but at least I could copy the files directly to the hard drive... Don't know about PS thought...

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Any ideas how to unstall a trashed version of the Beta CS3 which I dumped everything I could find using a search engine into the trash can and deleted including the Uninstall utility? Adobe has offered a clean uninstall but it requires as a safety to back everything up from your hard drive. I don't have enough space on my 2nd drive to do that. I'd love to install the new CS3 but get those error messages whenever I try indicating conflict with CS3

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Hoe important is it to deactivate beta?..also I didnt use uninstaller,..I went straight to the script...but still have problems?

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