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Eric230396253lmv
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February 7, 2022
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Adobe CS4 suite cannot uninstall since updating to Monterey

  • February 7, 2022
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Hello community, 

I used to use my Adobe creative CS4 suite on 10.13 High Sierra (with complications of course) and yesterday I had to erase my Mac and update to the latest version of Mac OS 12.2 Monterey. Then I transfered my data back from a time machine backup.

Now all of my Adobe programs are not compatible, as expected. 

I actually no longer use this suite of programs as my work computer has the newest version of Adobe. 

The question is how can I easily uninstall all of the Adobe CS4 software and appliction files from this Mac. I cannot run the uninstaller from the utilities folder since when running, it states I need to update the Adobe software, which I cannot. Catch 22.

Any help would be apprieciated. 

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Eric230396253lmvAuthor
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February 7, 2022

Actually I think a post from 2014 sort of fixed it for me. I had to install CS5 creative cloud cleaner and apparently that found the CS4 version I had. A previous message said download the newest CC cleaner which could not find CS4.

What I see now is a lot of other Adobe programs such as dreamweaver and reader which are not uninstalling using cloud cleaner. Thoughts?

 

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 7, 2022

Legacy 32-bit uninstallers won't run on your new 64-bit OS.   Ideally, you should have cleaned your system of old apps BEFORE upgrading to 64-bit OS.  But now that the horses have left the barn, you'll need to manually remove them. Or just leave them.  Your choice.

 

 

 

 

 

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