Comments on: mac photoshop elements 3 crashes on startup: a possible fix

By: Billie

Billie — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:29:42 +0000

I am so glad I foud this tip. I was ready to throw PSE in the trash – it was crashing “all the time” – at start-up, when I used the help menu, at random moments. I’ve followed the steps you suggested. Then I went in and out of the help menu 4 times, did a couple of other things that casued crashes before and well…it works!!!
Thank you

By: George

George — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:08:10 +0000

I, too, had the problem with PSE 3 & 4. Thanks for the tip, which did get posted on the Adobe forums. Pretty darned good detective work! When I first found the problem, I had installed Opera months before, but hadn’t used PSE 3 since then. (I use Graphic Converter for simple stuff.)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:01:01 +0000

This tip also fixed my problem with PSE 4. I had been doing backflips trying to find the inexplicable problem with PSE 4 crashing at startup. See my thread on the adobe forum here:

Thanks for the help.