Comments on: The CanoScan Lide 80 and Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)

By: gatis

gatis — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:14:40 +0000

So that got me thinking — “I should check my directories and see if those folders even exist on my system.” Lo and behold, they didn’t. And at long last, I was sure I had found the solution to this convoluted problem. I quickly created the following two directories on my file system, under my main user account:
/Library/Application Support/Canon/ScanGear/Plugins

/Library/Application Support/Canon/ScanGear/Plug-ins

works!!!

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Classic environment is no longer supported? - Mac-Forums.com — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:59:37 +0000

[...] Canon site), it seems to run fine. From the sounds of it though, you can install it fine. As noted here, you're going to need Rosetta installed. Have you got Rosetta installed? __________________ [...]

By: admin

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:13:20 +0000

Good people, I believe I've found the fix. See my new post for instructions. Adam

By: gavin

gavin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:38:49 +0000

Also I forgot to mention. I just did a clean install of OS X 10.6. I haven’t updated to 10.6.1 yet.

By: gavin

gavin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:38:00 +0000

Hi, I’ve been trying to get my scanner to work too. I don’t have Photoshop so i’ve been trying to get it to work with the Canon Toolbox. I got the Toolbox and the driver to install but whenever I click the scan button the app crashes.

By: robbie porter

robbie porter — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:27:39 +0000

ok, i created a new user but photoshop is still crashing when i try tio inport from the scangear…

good luck with your laptop! i’ll keep my fingers crossed!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:13:04 +0000

Hi Robbie. I’d be interested to know what happens if you make a new user and try doing the scan. It might give us a hint as to whether the problem is within your user folder or in the installation itself.

The success of my scanner setup is difficult to replicate because it was a 10.5 install which I upgraded to 10.6 and the scanner just kept working. Since there seems to be enough interest, I’ll do a clean install of 10.6 on my laptop and see if I can get the scanner working with that.

Adam

By: robbie porter

robbie porter — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:06:41 +0000

This has been really helpful, but I’m still not there yet. Feel like i’m getting close though…

I have photoshop cs3 running in rosetta and the latest plugin installed but as soon as i try to import the image from the scanner photoshop immediately crashes, any ideas??? it’s driving me crazy!

By: admin

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:30:13 +0000

I use CS3… I recently upgraded to CS4, but kept Photoshop CS3 just for scanning, figuring that way I won’t have to remember to check and uncheck the Rosetta option. So CS4 opens normally and CS3 in Rosetta.

I haven’t tried it in CS4, but the CanoScan Toolbox has been fine. Makes me think your problem isn’t with those apps, but elsewhere. If you create a new user and try to scan, does the same thing happen?

By: Michael Grob

Michael Grob — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:38:45 +0000

I tried as you suggested. Installing worked fine, but when trying to access the plugin in Photoshop CS4 (launched under Rosetta) Photoshop immediately crashes (same with CanoScan Toolbox). Which version of Photoshop do you use?