So I effectively let Adobe CS3’s own automatic updater application do its thing:īut frankly, this application and the updating process as designed by Adobe is a complete disaster. There are just too many issues to mention. When the updater runs, it checks for updates in the background, and then displays a dialog box requiring your attention:Īnd that’s where the problems start. (I’ll ignore the purely “aesthetic” problems here, although there are plenty of them, starting with these ugly blue links for “ Preferences” and “ Show Details” instead of proper Mac OS X controls, and with the fact that the blue link is the only way to access the application’s preferences.

There is no “ Preferences” command in the application’s menu.)įor one thing, in my experience, there is absolutely no point in trying to use the “ Show Details” option. For example, in the message above, I am told that there are 2 updates available, for a total of 68.4 MB. Yet when I click on “ Show Details,” I get this:īy my count, there are already five updates listed here, and it’s not even the full list. And if I check the boxes next to the available updates listed, I get a total that far exceeds 68.4 MB.