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Acrobat crashes while trying to launch The other step that you can perform if Acrobat or any other Adobe application is crashing, is to work with the plist files. i. Go to your account and open Libraries. ii. Locate preferences and open this folder. iii. Find the preferences file and move it to the desktop. iv. If this does not helps, then move whole Adobe folder to the desktop and then try to launch Acrobat and this time it should work. These few steps are the most popular and easy ones to follow in order to stop Acrobat from crashing and quitting unexpectedly.

Why Acrobat may quit unexpectedly and how to fix it? Sometimes you might get a prompt that "The Acrobat has unexpectedly quit". There are many reasons that may cause this and also there are multiple fixes, one of which might work for you. The very first reason is Mac OS X is designed in such a way that all the application should ideally be in Applications folder, if in case it is not, then, it might try to play with you. 1. So if the application is installed anywhere else apart from Applications folder, then uninstall it using uninstaller found in /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers. 2. Then reinstall it and make sure it is installed in Applications folder. If Adobe Acrobat is crashing, start troubleshooting from this step and proceed to other ones.

Unable to open pdf file in Adobe Acrobat One of the other issues that I face often about pdf files not opening in Acrobat but in Word or some other application. This issue is not as tough as it sounds, its all about changing the default application. These simple steps will help you to get rid of this issue: Select the file that needs to open & press command+i in combination. This will open the info window displaying all the charecterstics of this file. Expand Open with and see the application chosen there. Change the application with drop down arrow and if Acrobat is not there then choose it from more applications. After chosing now this file will always open in Acrobat. If you want this change to be permanent, then click on the button Change All which will open all the files of this type in Acrobat. This is not just limited till pdf and Acrobat, following these steps you can change default application of any file type.