First, before I go into the response to the Virtual Machine question, I found out how to avoid the Crash-on-Save bug on my machine. When I was attempting to save, the small, default save dialog was popping up. When I would click the dropdown, it would crash instantly. BUT… once I clicked the small button next to the name field, the one with the down arrow that expands the save dialog box, if I used the left side of Finder to pick my save location, it allowed me to save wherever I want. As soon as I clicked the dropdown menu below the name filed…. crash. So, at least I found a work-around for my and hopefully a few others…. VIRTUAL MACHINES Using Virtual Box v5.0.10, I got Snow Leopard to work on my 2015 5K iMac, but it was a lot of work. I tried a LOT of different ways to get it working, and I finally got it to work by following the steps and choosing the correct settings in these 2 tutorials: http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/17/install-run-mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-in-virtual-machine-on-lion/ https://stephenmonro.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/running-mac-os-snow-leopard-in-virtual-box-on-a-mac-not-a-hackintosh/ If certain settings are not set to specific numbers, it will fail. In the Stephen Monro tutorial, the settings in red text are the most critical. If Snow Leopard will work, Yosemite SHOULD, but then again, AI SHOULD work normally without going through all of this. Also, I did not instal CS5 in the virtual machine, so I can’t say for sure that works either, although I did successfully instal cdXtract in it, which uses Rosetta. So, I can’t give you a definite “yes”, but there is hope. There are quite a few obstacles though, even if you get the virtual machine working… 1) SIZE. If you’re using a 5K iMac, the virtualized Snow Leopard is small and ugly. Very pixelated, and no settings I found solved the issue. It just looks bad. 2) CLIPBOARD - the clipboard for copy/paste doesn’t work in EITHER direction. At leas for me, and I’ve tried every setting possible 3) USB. AFAIK, the USB issue between Virtual Box and Mac is still not fixed. My virtual machine will not recognize, read to or write to any USB device. And yes, i have the extensions installed. 4) SHARED FOLDER. I and many others can not get the Shared Folder feature to work between the Host Mac and the Guest Mac. Some people were able to get the “Connect to Server” path to work, but others including myself, could not. Here is the link of one of the discussions: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=58170 5) COPYING FILES. So, if USB and Shared folder doesn’t work, how do you copy files between the 2? Well you basically have 3 options: a - CD/DVD - the virtual machine will recognize physical CDs and DVDs in drives. Apple, in it’s infinite wisdom, decided we no longer need CD drives (unless you want to pay MORE money for an external). So, you can, with an external drive, read and write from a CD/DVD. So, you could get a re-writable disc and write to and from it to move the files. This sucks. b - CLOUD - you should be able to connect to the internet from the virtual machine (I can), so you can save the file to your Adobe Cloud storage, Dropbox, etc. But, if you have large files, this takes forever, and it just makes you angry that you are having to go through this process while you’re siting there waiting on the upload and download. This also sucks. c - dmg2iso http://dmg2iso.sourceforge.net/Home.html THIS IS ONE WAY ONLY; from the Host to the Virtual Machine. From that link, I got a folder that had an App and a Service. The app would not work, but the service did. You basically have a dmg, put stuff in it, then run the dmg2iso service which creates an iso disc, then open that disc in the Virtual Machine since it can open ios’s. Of course there are caveats - the dmg MUST be made in Snow Leopard… If I make a blank DMG using El Capitan, it will not work in the VM. However, if I use Snow Leopard to create a blank DMG, then save it to a CD or Cloud (since remember - this process doesn’t not work in reverse), I can open it in ElCap, save tome files to it, UNMOUNT, run the dmg2iso service, then open the iso in the Snow Leopard VM and save the files. But AGAIN, you still have to use a CD/DVD or Cloud service to get the files OUT of the VM. This also sucks. It should be noted that ever since the El Capitan 10.11.3 update, when I open Virtual Box, the Snow Leopard VM will open, but then the VB Dock icon bounces in the Dock and says “Not Responding”. If you Force Quit it, it kills the running VM, but if you ignore it, the VM works fine. Thanks AppHoles. So, of anyone figures out a way to get ANY of the things I discussed to work properly, please let me know.
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