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staceyjhe
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December 10, 2012
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Can I swap out my software to reinstall my CS2 for use with a Mac instead of Windows?

  • December 10, 2012
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After years of no problems, my CS2 ceased to work. I tried deinstalling it and using the Adobe clean up kit and reinstalling it to no avail. Frankly, I am not smart enough to follow all of those troubleshooting steps. But since I purchased the license to use CS2 and used the Windows software to install it on my computer, I was wondering now that I have deinstalled it and can't get it back on, can I install it on my Mac instead? Can I get the software to do that? thanks.

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    John Waller
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    John WallerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 10, 2012

    Unfortunately CS2 is also too old to upgrade to CS6 andd your PPC Mac won't run the current Adobe software which only runs on newer Intel-based Macs.

    Only CS5 users can upgrade to CS6.

    There is also a temporary upgrade window for CS3 and CS4 users which closes on 31 Dec 2012.

    So if you do eventually upgrade your Mac, you'll have to purchase a full version of CS6 (or whatever the current version may be).

    What exactly is happening when you try to run CS2? Hard to guess from the description given so far.

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
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    December 10, 2012

    No.

    1. CS2 would require an old mac with PPC support
    2. Serials are platform specific
    3. You can only do platform swaps for the latest current version

    That plan is completely falling apart as you see. If you can provide a better description of your problems along with some system info we may be able to fix you up, but your initial post lacks even the most basic of that...

    Mylenium

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