Freehand MX won't start / not launching

[duncanacampbell]

Hi guys,

I've just installed Freehand MX on my MacBook Pro and when I click it in the applications folder, it won't start.

I've installed
FreeHand MX 11.0.2

Onto a new MacBook Pro (running OS X 10.6.5)

I get the following crash report.


Thanks in advance for any help - you guys are lifesavers.







Process: FreeHand MX [644]
Path: /usr/libexec/oah/translate
Identifier: FreeHand MX
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: PPC (Translated)
Parent Process: FreeHand MX [636]

Date/Time: 2010-11-14 12:17:52.630 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574)
Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 LaunchCFMApp 0xb815ac07 spin_lock_wrapper + 89967
1 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8179fb4 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 98620
2 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80c6b13 0xb8000000 + 813843
3 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80c0037 0xb8000000 + 786487
4 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80dd8e8 0xb8000000 + 907496
5 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8145397 spin_lock_wrapper + 1791
6 LaunchCFMApp 0xb801ceb7 0xb8000000 + 118455

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0xb8179f16 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0x00000001
edi: 0x00000284 esi: 0x00000006 ebp: 0xb7fff978 esp: 0xb7fff954
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00000246 eip: 0xb815ac07 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0xb8179f08

Binary Images:
0x80000000 - 0x8005dff7 com.apple.framework.IOKit 2.0 (???) <A769737F-E0D6-FB06-29B4-915CF4F43420> /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit
0x8007d000 - 0x800e7fe7 libstdc++.6.dylib 7.9.0 (compatibility 7.0.0) <411D87F4-B7E1-44EB-F201-F8B4F9227213> /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib
0x80142000 - 0x802e9ff7 libSystem.B.dylib 125.2.1 (compatibility 1.0.0) <62291026-D016-705D-DC1E-FC2B09D47DE5> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
0x8036a000 - 0x804e5fe7 com.apple.CoreFoundation 6.6.4 (550.42) <C78D5079-663E-9734-7AFA-6CE79A0539F1> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
0x805dd000 - 0x805ebfe7 libz.1.dylib 1.2.3 (compatibility 1.0.0) <3CE8AA79-F077-F1B0-A039-9103A4A02E92> /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
0x805f0000 - 0x805fcff7 libkxld.dylib ??? (???) <F0E915AD-6B32-0D5E-D24B-B188447FDD23> /usr/lib/system/libkxld.dylib
0x80600000 - 0x80646ff7 libauto.dylib ??? (???) <29422A70-87CF-10E2-CE59-FEE1234CFAAE> /usr/lib/libauto.dylib
0x80653000 - 0x807d5fe7 libicucore.A.dylib 40.0.0 (compatibility 1.0.0) <35DB7644-0780-D2AB-F6A9-45F28D2D434A> /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib
0x80837000 - 0x808e4fe7 libobjc.A.dylib 227.0.0 (compatibility 1.0.0) <DF8E4CFA-3719-3415-0BF1-E8C5E561C3B1> /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
0x808f8000 - 0x808fbfe7 libmathCommon.A.dylib 315.0.0 (compatibility 1.0.0) <1622A54F-1A98-2CBE-B6A4-2122981A500E> /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe4162b dyld 132.1 (???) <A4F6ADCC-6448-37B4-ED6C-ABB2CD06F448> /usr/lib/dyld
0xb8000000 - 0xb81defff LaunchCFMApp ??? (???) <6437A74D-607F-7339-5F7E-F6B0EF81C25D> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Support/LaunchCFMApp
0xffff0000 - 0xffff1fff libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) <62291026-D016-705D-DC1E-FC2B09D47DE5> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

Translated Code Information:
objc[636]: garbage collection is ON
NO CRASH REPORT

 

[DeltaMac]

Freehand MX is just too old.
It, like other older versions of Adobe apps, will experience problems which Adobe is choosing not to solve.
Here's an Adobe document, released at about the time that Leopard was released 3 years ago.
http://www.adobe.com/support/products/pdfs/leopardsupport.pdf
Quote from that PDF:

We do not recommend trying to install or use FreeHand on Mac OS X Leopard.

That recommendation would not change with Snow Leopard.