30 Minutes

[PAlexC]

30 Minutes. That's how long it took to install Fireworks CS3.

I had Master Collection CS3 installed, but not all parts of it. I just wanted to add Fireworks.

25 of those minutes were spend updating "Shared Components".

Ugh.

[jAQUAN]

The entire master collection takes about an hour. I wonder if fireworks is 25 of those or anything added later takes 25 minutes.

[yasunobu13]

Ever heard of RAD (ie IBM's Rational Application Developer. ie Eclipse with a bunch of IBM plugins). Everyone at work uses it and it takes around 3 hours to install.

Plus it's so buggy that re-installing it is not abnormal, that's quite a way to ruin a day's work.

[gerbick]

I thought this was about pig orgasms.

[EVPohovich]

The fact that you know how long a pig has an orgasm scares the **** out of me...

[Genesis F5]

Just wait until he tells you how many times he went to see Babe: Pig in the City when it was in theaters.

[gerbick]

The fact that you know how long a pig has an orgasm scares the **** out of me...

U gawt a purdy mowf.

[loydall]

You guys want to try installing Visual Studio.

You could get through an entire batch of pigs before that bad-boy finished installing.

[whispers]

a friend told me that CS3 form Master Collection took almost an hour or so...

that true?

[jAQUAN]

was that friend me or just my first post in this thread?

[whispers]

neither..

since you stated ALL of Master Collection 'only' took you an hour, where as I was told Flash CS3 takes 'over an hour' to install...(by itself)

he said it seemed 'stuck' at a certain install point for a 'very long time'.. and finished in roughly over an hour..

also told me Flash CS3 was like 1.5 GIGS!!! holy crap!

[gerbick]

CS3 full install takes about an hour. Straight up... I lost my cool with it. Visual Studio 2008 is actually worse if you install everything. I lost my religion with it. And it scares me what CS4 will do. Photoshop CS3 by itself took like 40 minutes - and I don't install half of the standard stuff...

[PAlexC]

I went through a bit of debacle when upgrading from Web Premium to Master. (We have both in the office.)

I tried de-activating Web Premium, then activating it using the Master Collection key, no dice. Went through about 4 hours of installing/uninstalling/installing stuff. Mind you, this is on a laptop with a 5400rpm drive, and the CD-ROM actually quit near the end of one of the installs.

I don't have all of Master Collection installed, and it's still 6.64 GB.

Maceo, break it down!

• Acrobat 1.10 GB
• After Effects 89.8 MB (I chose not to install this component, but it's there.)
• Bridge 140 MB
• Device Central 98.6 MB
• Dreamweaver 185 MB
• Extension Manager 12.6 MB
  
• Fireworks 171 MB (This took 30 minutes?!)
• Flash 336 MB
• Flash Video Encoder 33.2 MB
• Adobe Help Viewer 5.06 MB
• Photoshop 296 MB
• Premiere 640 MB
• Soundbooth 296 MB
• Soundbooth Scores 3.08 GB
• Adobe Stock Photos 6.94 MB
• Adobe Utilities 13.5 MB
• Reader 8.0 167 MB

If any of you upgrade to CS4, let us know how it goes.

[whispers]

Those may be the sizes of the individual applications, however it also adds on about 1 GIG plus of other MANDATORY crap/garbage (like updated/shared components....etc)

[jasonsplace]

Adobe really needs to learn how fix their installers. I have the Web Premium CS3 suite. I had some problems one day where it wouldn't launch anymore. I called Adobe. They had me uninstall the suite and reinstall it. That didn't fix the problem so they had me uninstall it again, run an Adobe Clean Up Script and then re-install it. It worked that time but it took a full day to do it. Since my job basically relies on Photoshop I wasn't able to work that day at all.

[PAlexC]

Those may be the sizes of the individual applications, however it also adds on about 1 GIG plus of other MANDATORY crap/garbage (like updated/shared components....etc)

Like I said, my whole Adobe folder was just over 6 gigs. The stuff in my user directory amounts to less than 200MB. I don't know where else it sticks stuff.

I have to imagine the install time has to do with the FNPLicensing, but that's a 2k process, how long could it take to kill, and even re-install and restart if necessary?

[jAQUAN]

Deactivating is key before uninstalling/reinstalling. Still a poorly implemented system on adobe's part.

The addition of Bridge and Version Cue really slowed things down. I've grown to really like Bridge but have yet to touch VC. Do any of you use version cue and if so how do you like it?

[PAlexC]

I don't understand it.

[jAQUAN]

good, I feel less stupid now.