Installed Mac High Sierra 10.13.1 today - Photoshop is slow and NIK is crashing

Did the routine update this morning and installed Mac High Sierra 10.13.1 on a 2014 MacBook 8 GB RAM. Now Photoshop CS6 is running slow and NIK is crashing. No good! Any suggestions on what is going on and what to do?

 

Thanks

I only have PS CS5 and it runs fine other than crashing on quit. My NIK plugins all work fine with both Aperture and Photos app. Have you tried running Disk Utility's First Aid?

Try trashing the Photoshop preference.

Yes, ran Disk Utility First Aid and it shows no problems. Right now Photoshop crashes every time I apply any adjustments in NIK. I'm totally stumped on this one. Photoshop works, but not the NIK plugins.

Here's an Apple Community discussion on it - Lightroom and Photoshop Crash on High Sierra | Official Apple Support Communities

 

If you google it, you will find lots of people having problems with it.

I was asked to revert to some "legacy" versions of some supporting aps to run several of my programs specfically my old CS5 suite. They now run without problems except when I shut down, Photoshop 5.1 will generate a "crash" notice instead of simply quitting.

After reading these comments, I think that I will postpone updating from Sierra, which works fine with aperture, CS5 and NIK plug-ins on my 2010 Mac Pro, to High Sierra.

"After reading these comments, I think that I will postpone updating from Sierra, which works fine with aperture, CS5 and NIK plug-ins on my 2010 Mac Pro, to High Sierra."

 

A little late for me, but I strongly recommend keeping your system as is.

I was just reading the TechCrunch app on my iPAD (also posted on TechCrunch.com) , and a headline posted one hour ago (about 2:15 PM MST) reads

 

"Huge Security flaw lets anyone log into High Sierra Mac"

 

"..On Macs running the latest version of High Sierra - 10.13.1 - it appears that anyone can log in just by putting "root" in the user name field. ......Apple will probably fix it probably within hours but holy moly. Do not leave your Mac unattended until this is resolved". ......

 

So, apparently, High Sierra is a work in progress in more than one way.

Edited November 28, 2017 by Glenn McCreery

It's a NIK bug guys. Lots of 3rd party plug-in's run fine and don't crash the Mac. The issue with Root login is fixed and has nothing to do with any of this. Someone needs to contact NIK with a crash log.

Regarding the security flaw, and quoting from the Washington Post:

"Apple said in the statement. “When our security engineers became aware of the issue Tuesday afternoon, we immediately began working on an update that closes the security hole. This morning, as of 8 a.m., the update is available for download, and starting later today it will be automatically installed on all systems running the latest version (10.13.1) of macOS High Sierra.”

 

It would be nice if the Photoshop, Lightroom, and NIK problems get fixed as quickly.

Edited November 30, 2017 by Glenn McCreery

It is a computer, you can't expect it to work right all the time.

 

New software - you are the test monkey. Why would the makers waste their time making sure all worked right when they know you can do it for them. They lose nothing if you lose everything - then they can sell you more software.

Why would the makers waste their time making sure all worked right when they know you can do it for them.

 

This issue was known before release of the new OS. It has nothing to do with being a "test monkey."

From what I had read in advance of High Sierra's general release, that a number of Photoshop Plug-ins and specifically the Nik Collection as abandoned by Google were not 64-Bit compliant apps and would no longer work under High Sierra which has moved to not only a replacement for Apples legacy HFS File storage scheme, but also a move to all 64-Bit Apps.

Now that DxO has acquired the NiK Collection I am not sure if they have upgraded NiK to 6t4-Bit compliance or not. I posed that question to Nik upon their reacquisition of NiK and got a generic support request reply.

Why have you upgraded to High Sierra you might ask your self first before wondering why legacy apps no longer work.

Im never in any hurry to do a major upgrade that upsets a workflow that's reliant on Apps that have yet or may never be upgraded to work under the new OS offerings. Whats the Hurry?

Google Nik Collection to get the latest on the nikcollection.

I am not able to post the link to the new website for DxO