Hokay...I'll make this story as short as possible.

I tired to install Photoshop CS3 on the Mac Pro. No dice. Thinking I can get around it, I installed on my girlfriend's G4 iBook (running 10.4 - 800MHz) and tried to do the CS1 trick I had done years before - just copying the app and the application support folder with it. This plan seemed to be okay, although 'permissions' prevented me from dragging the whole app support folder across (and I was in a hurry so thought maybe I could get away with whatever didn't want to come along). Anyways, the install worked, and I got Photoshop CS3 running on 10.5. But! Now, something called 'mds' is using 130% of the CPU, no matter what. And on top of that, Finder is using 80%, for a combined 210% of my four cores!

What and why and what should I do? Should I just try a clean install back to Tiger, and then install Photopoop, and then upgrade to leopard? Or is my dodgy trick haunting me and undoable?

Cheers for any help!

Justin

mds is the spotlight indexer. Just leave it for a while and it will probably settle down

Ah! I wondered what the heck it was *phew*

Yep, it just stopped then. Cools - well, back to work for me then. I've seen mds and wondered what it was many times. Thanks for that, and thanks for the DVDs too! They're in great nick!