Audition 3.0 vs. Adobe Reader (pdf)

Anyone ever upgrade Adobe Reader and then have a problem with your Audition as a result?

I am pretty sure that one of older Reader upgrades wiped all registry branches under "Adobe". Can't recall details however.

I am pretty sure that one of older Reader upgrades wiped all registry branches under "Adobe". Can't recall details however.

That's what I suspected.  Do you think Adobe has corrected that problem? 

I actually had something like that happen a few years ago.  I can't remember exactly which version of Audition I was using at the time (maybe 1.0 or 1.5) -- or which version of Reader I had -- but when I upgraded Reader it created a real mess with Audition and all my presets.

Right now I'm using AA 3.0 and Reader 8 and was thinking about upgrading to Reader 9 -- but I sure don't want to go through that nightmare again.  I'd stick with Reader 8 in a heartbeat if I thought I'd have to deal with all that again. 

I am pretty sure that one of older Reader upgrades wiped all registry branches under "Adobe". Can't recall details however.

That's what I suspected.  Do you think Adobe has corrected that problem? 

Hmm... Shouldn't Reaper be correcting that problem??? 

Uninstalling Acrobat/Reader v5 deleted the whole Adobe registry settings tree.

Paul

Uninstalling Acrobat/Reader v5 deleted the whole Adobe registry settings tree.

Paul

How recently did this happen?

I couldn't recall the details, but I remembered this was something that was complained about some time ago.

A quick search of this forum revealed it was tcatzere that had the problem - posted on 10 Feb 2008!  Then, uninstalling Adobe Reader trashed his AA1.5 settings.

I have a feeling similar problems were discussed on the old Syntrillium forum, but I couldn't find the relevant posts.

A quick search of this forum revealed it was tcatzere that had the problem - posted on 10 Feb 2008!  Then, uninstalling Adobe Reader trashed his AA1.5 settings.

Well, Grame, that was me (tcatzere).  I didn't remember having posted another thread on this same subject -- and I thought it was a little longer ago, but apparently not.  I must say, you have a good memory. 

I started this thread because I'd like to upgrade my Reader, but I'm not interested in going through the same thing all over again.  It's interesting that a couple other posts in this thread seem to corroborate what I experienced.

I don't think you were the only person to run up against this problem - it doesn't affect me, as I don't have the Reader installed on the machine I run my audio software on.

Unfortunately, I also don't know if the problem was ever even looked at by Adobe, never mind if they fixed it.  Maybe SteveG has some info on that aspect.

I only recall that uninstalling Acrobat 5 was an unholy disaster in terms of just about anything else you had installed from Adobe. As for fixing it - well, that was unlikely because the uninstaller is installed at the same time as you install the software. And since it allowed for installation in non-standard places, you couldn't exactly have a 'standard' fix for the problem. Or something like that, anyway...

I wonder what would happen if I tried to install Adobe Reader 9 over the top of Reader 8.1 -- without first uninstalling 8.1?

I wonder what would happen if I tried to install Adobe Reader 9 over the top of Reader 8.1 -- without first uninstalling 8.1?

Unless explicitly told not to, I always install upgrades over the existing version of any software - works for me.

How recently did this happen?

Since Adobe wrote the uninstaller for Acrobat 5 - six, seven, years ago?

I wonder what would happen if I tried to install Adobe Reader 9 over the top of Reader 8.1 -- without first uninstalling 8.1?

The installer asks for permission to uninstall the old one first, I think.  Certainly that's the way it goes with Acrobat itself.

Paul

I have recently updated from Reader 8.1 (?) to Reader 9, with absolutely no effect on AA3 that I have been able to observe.