CS4 Trial wont work

[blackfx35]

I just downloaded and installed the Photoshop CS4 Trial onto my iMac, but when I attempt to run it I get a error message that says "You can't open the application "Adobe Photoshop CS4" because it is not supported on this architecture".

What exactly does this mean? How do I fix it? I purchased my iMac brand new in May of this year...

 

[thr33face]

I just downloaded and installed the Photoshop CS4 Trial onto my iMac, but when I attempt to run it I get a error message that says "You can't open the application "Adobe Photoshop CS4" because it is not supported on this architecture".

What exactly does this mean? I purchased my iMac brand new in May of this year...

while I don't know what this message means I also got it recently:

I downloaded the Premiere Pro CS4 trial and after installation, when trying to open the application, I got the exact same message.

I then decided to reinstall the trial, but it gave the message again.

The solution for me was to re-download the disk image and from that dmg it worked fine.

 

[termina3]

Are either of you working on PPC?

Also, it's possible a version of the image was out there on a mirror site, but flawed, hence redownloading fixing the problem.

That's just a guess--there are multitudes of explanations of this phenomenon. OP: did you redownload? If so, did it work?

 

[blackfx35]

I downloaded the file again and still receive the same error message. How do I delete it entirely from my system? (sorry for the newb question, I still am not sure how to "uninstall" programs like I used to do on my PC...)

Perhaps I should remove it and then download it again, and install...

 

[thr33face]

Are either of you working on PPC?

I for one am on an Intel system.

One more question to the OP:

Is your application somehow crossed out? as in: does it hav some kind of generic application icon with a grey overlay?

the reason i ask: this was the case on my failed install, but at the time i though it just failed to load the app. icon.

 

[blackfx35]

I for one am on an Intel system.

One more question to the OP:

Is your application somehow crossed out? as in: does it hav some kind of generic application icon with a grey overlay?

the reason i ask: this was the case on my failed install, but at the time i though it just failed to load the app. icon.

That's exactly what it is....a grey "no smoking sign" thing-a-ma-jig that is over the icon...should I try to reinstall? erase and re download?

 

[termina3]

For most things you can just drag the application to the trash to delete it.

If you don't think that's thorough enough, use AppZapper.

For Adobe products, Adobe usually offers a script to clean everything out.