• Adobe After Effects

  problems reinstalling after effects

  Posted by Marley Bishop on September 27, 2008 at 12:35 am

  so I got adobe cs3 master edition..

  anyway, every program installed fine at first.. but here’s the thing..

  I had adobe after effects 7.0.. and a whole lot of plugins and presets.. and I tried to put the plugins and presets into adobe after effects cs3.. but I did a really bad job copying and pasting.. which totally killed the program. So.. I tried reinstalling it. It worked fine, but then got stuck on “repairing shared components”.

  so, I tried completely uninstalling it and then installing it again, and the same thing happens.

  Does anyone know what’s wrong?

  some other things (don’t know if they matter):

  I have a vista laptop

  I have plenty of memory left (like 88 gb)

  I’ve waited about half an hour for it to finish “repairing shared components”.. maybe it takes longer?

  Chris Wright replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Chris Wright

  September 27, 2008 at 4:03 am

  delete whole adobe cs3 folder and any presets or plugins you put in. Go to
  C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\c345345345 or something similar and remove that. and finally download’s Microsoft’s free “Windows Install Clean Up” google that and remove AE cs3 from installshield inside it. remove AE cs3 from registry and then when you install AE again, it won’t know that you had ever installed it b4. It won’t ask to re-install, only to install. It works for me. (disclaimer implied)

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