Just for the record (and, perhaps, to help others, who may have trashed Deskovery), I found out, later, that there was an update to Deskovery (which is Deskovery 3), that does not cause Photoshop to crash.
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Why won't Photoshop CS6 function in Sierra 10.12.1?
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Just for the record (and, perhaps, to help others, who may have trashed Deskovery), I found out, later, that there was an update to Deskovery (which is Deskovery 3), that does not cause Photoshop to crash.
Cl. Hop.
I have your exact same problem, and I don't have Deskovery installed. What do I do now?
I have your exact same problem, and I don't have Deskovery installed. What do I do now?
Botu, the problem is not there for me, now (as I believe was made clear, above). If you do have the problem, I would not blame Sierra for it, or even Photoshop. It may be something else on your computer that's doing it. Why not try creating a new user account (call it App Tester, or something), and run Photoshop in that? If it works, even for a while, I would bet that something on your computer is causing the trouble. To find out what that may be, open your apps in this user account, one at a time, with Photoshop running, and wait until the trouble shows up. The odds are that you will have found the culprit.
I'm no expert, but I do know that this is the time-honoured method for finding what causes apps to malfunction or crash, and it worked for me. Good luck!
C.H.
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Thanks Clod_Hopper! Will give that a try right away. Keeping my fingers crossed. Otherwise this whole thing is driving me insane. Such expensive hardware and software are not supposed to malfunction this way.
It seemed that my problem would never be solved. However, there is a cause for every problem, so don't give up. If you cure the problem, do let us know.
C.H.
A big thanks to you C.H. Your approach is correct. In my case it was the (believe it or not) native Notes app. Simultaneously opening both would hang PS immediately. I have switched to Evernote. And PS has not crashed since. However gathering from various forums, upgrading to CC seems to have taken care of all such issues. Adobe apparently have stopped updating CS6 and hence with each OS version upgrade there could be new issues which might force PS6 or older Adobe apps to crash or hang. Since then I have downloaded and started using a trial version of PS CC and everything seems to be buttery smooth. I do have a good mind to switch to CC. Huge problem is they only let you use it on one machine. My new small office will need three and means I will need to buy 3 different subscriptions. Why do they have to make all this so complicated? Anyways, for CS6 issues CLOD-HOPPER's is the only real, working solution out there.
I'm very glad to read your report, Botu, and thanks for telling us what happened. With regard to Photoshop CS6 and further upgrades to Mac OSX, I suppose we will have to keep fingers crossed. I certainly could not afford even one subscription for CC — let alone three! So, I shall be stuck with CS6. If that ever fails, I should need to learn how to use Gimp (free).
C.H.
altho most of my collabs use photoshop, i switched to affinity photo almost 2 years ago, and love it. easy to adapt to, can open psd files... worth at least checking out. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/
That's a very useful tip, fisherking. However, unfortunately for me, Affinityserif does not do 3D (I don't think it does, anyway). Come to think of it, I don't know whether Gimp does 3D, either. Thanks for the tip, though. I had not heard of it.
C.H.
it's a great app, it's on the app store (if that matters), and east to adapt to. some info about 3D (which i don't do): https://affinity.serif.com/forum/in...r-3d-artists-normalmapheightmap-creation-wip/