Hey folks.. Thanks in advance for any help!
I posting here as a last resort - I've done a lot of research, and I've been up and down the discussion boards. I've done the whole unistall/reinstall, delete all the files/preferences, so many restarts, etc.
Here is the error message I receive. After a fresh install, I can open Illustrator and open files, but after working in the document for a few moments it crashes. This is an improvement. I used to not be able to open anything.
Let me know if you need any more information.
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Process: Adobe Illustrator [3444]
Path: /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC/Adobe Illustrator.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Illustrator
Identifier: com.adobe.illustrator
Version: 256 (17.0.0)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [150]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2013-07-06 23:16:47.748 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)
Report Version: 10
Interval Since Last Report: 22224 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 564 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: 41ED1AB8-5B74-EF55-AE31-45162375CB5C
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
VM Regions Near 0:
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__TEXT 0000000100000000-0000000101431000 [ 20.2M] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC/Adobe Illustrator.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Illustrator
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.adobe.illustrator.plugins.ControlPanel 0x00000001123ac028 0x1123a6000 + 24616
1 com.adobe.illustrator.plugins.ControlPanel 0x00000001123ac21f 0x1123a6000 + 25119
2 com.adobe.illustrator.plugins.ControlPanel 0x00000001123ac990 0x1123a6000 + 27024
3 com.adobe.illustrator.plugins.ControlPanel 0x00000001123b7053 0x1123a6000 + 69715
4 com.adobe.illustrator 0x000000010099dbda AIUIBaseControlPanelGroup::CreateControlGroup(int, Drover_AICPUIGroup) + 154
5 com.adobe.illustrator 0x00000001006b999a ControlGroupsPluginMain(char const*, char const*, void*) + 3258
6 com.adobe.illustrator 0x0000000100aba158 spEdgeCallPlugin(SPAccess*, char const*, char const*, void*, int*) + 152
7 com.adobe.illustrator 0x0000000100ab5423 SPCallPlugin + 99
8 com.adobe.illustrator 0x0000000100ab8066 SPSendMessage + 646
9 com.adobe.illustrator.plugins.ControlPanel 0x00000001123acc58 0x1123a6000 + 27736
10 com.adobe.illustrator.plugins.ControlPanel 0x00000001123af02f 0x1123a6000 + 36911
11 com.adobe.illustrator.plugins.ControlPanel 0x00000001123ae3a6 0x1123a6000 + 33702
12 com.adobe.illustrator.plugins.ControlPanel 0x00000001123b56c4 0x1123a6000 + 63172
13 com.adobe.illustrator.plugins.ControlPanel 0x00000001123b5b6d 0x1123a6000 + 64365
14 com.adobe.illustrator.plugins.ControlPanel 0x00000001123a7990 0x1123a6000 + 6544
15 com.adobe.illustrator.plugins.ControlPanel 0x00000001123a721d PluginMain + 301
16 com.adobe.illustrator 0x0000000100aba158 spEdgeCallPlugin(SPAccess*, char const*, char const*, void*, int*) + 152
17 com.adobe.illustrator 0x0000000100ab5423 SPCallPlugin + 99
18 com.adobe.illustrator 0x0000000100ab8066 SPSendMessage + 646
19 com.adobe.illustrator 0x00000001006b6605 fxCallPlugin(SPPlugin*, char const*, void*) + 1573
20 com.adobe.illustrator 0x00000001008875bb NotifyOneOrAllPlugins(char const*, void*, bool, SPPlugin*) + 507
21 com.adobe.illustrator 0x000000010077350a PluginArtIdle(unsigned long) + 154
22 com.adobe.illustrator 0x00000001006e5a31 PluginsIdle(IdlePurpose) + 65
23 com.adobe.illustrator 0x000000010051e55b WindowIdle(IdlePurpose) + 443
24 com.adobe.illustrator 0x000000010042f67a CAIApplication::Idle(IdlePurpose) + 170
25 com.adobe.illustrator 0x00000001004865fb CAIExoAppEventHandler::DispatchNullEvent() + 27
26 com.adobe.dvacore.framework 0x0000000108768ef4 int dvacore::config::ErrorManager::ExecuteFunction<void>(boost::function0 <void>*, void*) + 68
27 com.adobe.illustrator 0x0000000100489a52 DroverErrorManager::ExecuteFunctionWithTopLevelExceptionHandler(boost ::function0<int>) + 66
28 com.adobe.dvacore.framework 0x0000000108768f8c void dvacore::config::ErrorManager::ExecuteFunctionWithTopLevelExceptionHa ndler<void>(boost::function0<void>, bool*) + 140
29 com.adobe.dvacore.framework 0x000000010876aafd void dvacore::config::ExecuteTopLevelFunction<void>(boost::function0<void> , bool*) + 125
30 com.adobe.exo.framework 0x00000001097f0673 -[ExoMacApplication sendEvent:] + 1043
31 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a31121a -[NSApplication run] + 636
32 com.adobe.exo.framework 0x00000001097efeb8 exo::app::OS_AppBase::RunEventLoop() + 56
33 com.adobe.illustrator 0x0000000100488195 CAIExoAppImpl::RunEventLoop() + 21
34 com.adobe.illustrator 0x000000010042e74c CAIApplication::RunApp() + 396
35 com.adobe.illustrator 0x0000000100419a57 main + 135
36 com.adobe.illustrator 0x0000000100002c94 start + 52