About Adobe CS4 Installation Errors : Error Number 2

I needed a fast tool for creating the mockup of my new blog template. I thought what can be better than Dreamweaver, as it’s the tool that I use for most of my freelance work. As I won’t be needing Dreamweaver on this computer for more than a few days, I downloaded and tried to install the Dreamweaver CS4′s trial version.

I’m running on Windows 7 64bit Ultimate. Right away, the installation started giving errors. This is the error message:

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 LangPack (en_US)
Error: Error 2.

And if you try to run Dreamweaver, this message box appears:

Could not locate the Resources file in the Configuration folder.
This file is required to run Dreamweaver.
Please reinstall the application.

For a few hours I tried to find how to solve this problem. Disabled all firewall, antivirus software, startup tools. A fresh restart, not opening any programs while restarting, even not moving the mouse, or praying. Nothing was helping.

At the end, a lost comment in the huge interwebs of blogs and forums saved my day while searching Google.

If you are using Vista or Windows 7 and encounter error 2, check this folder:

C:\Users\Public\Documents

I’m definitely certain that, you do not have that one created. Simply create it by hand and watch the magic happen.

Isn’t it fun ? Wait! What’s more disturbing is that Adobe installation does not create or put any files or folders in here. Sooo strange…

Auto Mirror Selected Using a Specific/Picked Object

One of the missing parts of 3ds max is, you can’t find any APIs related to most of the functions. Mirroring is one of them. It has no functions that you can use from maxscript. Just “max mirror” which actually opens the mirror dialog toolbox.

Yet, there is another way for controlling max: dialog monitoring. If you are so tired of selecting objects that needs to be mirrored to a specific object, and selecting or picking that object, plus changing the axis to “use transform center”, this is the script for you.

Download Auto Mirror Script

macroScript AUTO_MIRROR
category:"emrahgunduz.com"
tooltip:"Auto mirror using MIRROROBJ"
buttontext:"Auto Mirror"
(
  fn XMirror =
  (
    local Xhwnd=dialogMonitorOps.getWindowHandle()
    local Xstring=UIAccessor.GetWindowText Xhwnd
    --//--
    if Xhwnd != undefined then
      (
      if Xstring != undefined and (findString Xstring "Mirror") != undefined then
        (
        UIAccessor.PressButtonByName Xhwnd "X"
        UIAccessor.PressButtonByName Xhwnd "Instance"
        UIAccessor.PressDefaultButton()
        )
      )
    true
  )
  undo on (
    MirrorOBJ = $MIRROROBJ
    SelectedOBJ = $

    toolMode.coordsys MirrorOBJ
    toolMode.transformCenter()

    dialogMonitorOps.registerNotification XMirror id:#findmirror
    dialogMonitorOps.enabled=true
    --//--
    max mirror
    --//--
    dialogMonitorOps.unregisterNotification id:#findmirror
    dialogMonitorOps.enabled=false

    toolMode.coordsys #view
    toolMode.selectionCenter()
  )
)

Here are a few screenshots of how this script works: