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John Kranz
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January 13, 2012
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How to conduct safe uninstall/removal of outdated Adobe apps

  • January 13, 2012
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I purchased and installed CS5.5 today. (yes, sorry, I'm late to the party).

My question is how to best remove my outdated CS4 applications. I've got DW, PS, Acrobat, ID, etc, etc. -- all version 4.

I see an uninstall app inside the version 4 applications, but my concern is this may mess up and accidentally remove my new version 5.5 apps and related components.

Can anyone verify what is the appropriate way to safely uninstall my outdated versions so I don't mess up my 5.5 install and components?

Thanks!!!

John

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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January 14, 2012

The CS4 uninstallers don't touch CS5.5. The only thing that gets messed up are file associations and thus the various "Edit Original" and "Open in program X" associations. nothing you couldn't avoid by unisntalling everything Adobe and reinstalling only CS5.5...

Mylenium

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John KranzAuthor
Participant
January 14, 2012

Thank you, Mylenium, for the response. I've had bad experiences in the past so I was hoping to confirm that nothing would happen to shared components. This was confirmed yesterday by Adobe Support, and all looks to be running fine. Before doing so, I realized I needed to deauthorize the apps first from my computer as a first step. That was easy to do by just selecting one of my CS4 apps and the dialog prompted me to deauthorize all my CS4 apps. That was a nice touch and time-saver.

My only question after this experience is that I don't understand why some of the CS4 version apps still have folders on my drive, with a few files remaining. I was anticipating the uninstall would properly wipe out all contents related to the CS4 apps -- meaning the folders and any content would be wiped away. Here is what still remains on my hard drive:

  • CS4 Flash -- an external library remains:  FLAir1_5.bundle
  • CS4 ID -- AdobeFnt11.lst

I've taken screenshots of both and attached them.

Jeffrey_A_Wright
Jeffrey_A_Wright
Legend
January 15, 2012

Did you have any third-party plugins installed?  It also might be temporary files utilized by our applications.  For example the AdobeFNT11.lst file is a file used by Adobe applications to cache font information.

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