dougrdotnet

I’ve been wanting to check out contribute ever since I purchased CS4 a few months ago. I found, however, that Contribute was very unstable and was hanging upon each attempt to connect to a Web server.  I found a KB article which described exactly what issues I was experiencing.  You can find it here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/408/kb408112.html .

Here are the conditions as referenced from the above article:

Adobe Contribute hangs when you start it on Mac OS 10.5.x.

Details

You are either using Safari version 3.2.1 or the Safari 4 Public Beta

Reason

This is due to a change in the WebKit behavior while working with Safari version 3.2.1 or the Safari 4 Public Beta

This was exactly my situation.  On the downside, the fix discussed that the problem will recur if Safari 4 Public Beta was reinstalled following the update.  This was the case for me as I installed Safari after Contribute prior to realizing there was any problem.  I updated Contribute and then found the item which I had not previously been aware of.  It was necessary to create a file and place it inside the plugins directory.

Here are those instructions from the article:

Create a file “ContributeMacOptions.override” in the location Application > Adobe contribute CS4 > Configuration > plug-ins.

I simply opened up my text editor, TextMate in my case and created an empty file names as specified and saved it to the appropriate directory.  As it seems, this has resolved my issue and since I am a Firefox user, not having Safari isn’t really a big deal to me.

Contribute,Tools,Blogging