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TBecx
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October 9, 2019
Question

Fireworks stopped working after upgrading to Mac OS 10.15 Catalina

  • October 9, 2019
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Dear all,

 

I am a proud Fireworks user and have been for years. 

Yesterday my Mac asked me to upgrade to the new 10.15 Catalina. 

But eversince I cannot open Adobe Fireworks anymore. It even has a stop sign over its icon. 

 

I expect it has something to do with the fact that Catalina does not support 32bit apps anymore. 

Which I did not realise before upgrading. 

 

Is there any workaround?

Otherwise I won't be able to alter all my Fireworks PNG files anymore...

 

Any help is appreciated!

 

Kind regards,

Tom 

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      martinvidic
      Participant
      September 7, 2020

      Fireworks is the ONLY reason why I pay for CC. You can't create design and icons that fast in photoshop and illustrator. Fireworks always saved me a lot of time! Bring it back already adobe 😞

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        Community Expert
        Daniel KramerCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        November 27, 2022

        You need an older OS to still run it

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        estherwarda
        Known Participant
        May 19, 2020

        Hi there... I have the same issue.  All those FW pngs files that can never be in layers again.  😞  During this COVID time, I have been learning photoshop but it still won't solve the issue of the old PNG files.  I'm hanging on to the Mojavie as long as I can. 

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        Paul-M
        Legend
        May 19, 2020

        The best solution available is a batch FW PNG TO PSD command for Fireworks.

        Paul-M - Community Expert
          annehm
          annehm
          Participant
          June 28, 2020

          That's about as useful as saying, "the best way to bake brownies is in the kitchen!"

          A few more details would be helpful.

          LIke, where would someone find information about this command? 

          Is there a page that explains it? If so, what's the URL?

          If not, then maybe a little more information here -- do you simply open a terminal window and enter FW PNG TO PSD? (didn't work)

          Are you in the folder with the photos?  (nope, that didn't work)

          Or the Fireworks application folder?  (couldn't get there).

           

          Please provide some more details.

           

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          estherwarda
          Known Participant
          October 20, 2019

          When I updated to Mojave, the same thing happened and all I had to do (after a LONG time of troubleshooting) was to reinstall Adobe Application Manager.  Now, I can't even seem to do that.  I wouldn't mind looking for a new program, as I'm sick to death of dealing with this with every update, but I have 1000s of layered PNG files that ONLY fireworks open.  Totally STRESSING!!!  😞  

            AliciaWheatley
            AliciaWheatley
            Inspiring
            November 10, 2019

            Trust me, I tried my sabatical away from Fireworks. And now find myself back here. Tried Affinity Designer and its does not have basic things like Free Transform. I have settled on using Fireworks with Adobe XD, which is turning into a fairly productive workflow to deliver prototypes and design specs. Perhaps one day Affinity will be there. I have tried Adobe Illistrator and not having photo tools built is is a major stumbling block to my workflow. I mean, if you just produce artwork in the flat design style it works, but when you want to do more realistic design it falls flat. I am still hoping that in the next few years a true replacement will be found. 

              ALBATROSS
              ALBATROSS
              Participating Frequently
              January 6, 2020

              It would not be so bad if we didn't have hundreds of .fw ong files that can't be edited. The least Adobe should have done was create an extension for Photoshop so that we can edit them

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                Paul-M
                Legend
                October 10, 2019

                Fireworks won't work on Catalina as its 32 bit - Adobe stopped updating/supporting Fireworks a long time ago (a terrible decision in my humble opinion), so there won't be a 64 bit version (I'd be very surprised anyway). Options are limited; rollback to Mojave, set up a dual boot or switch to Windows.

                Paul-M - Community Expert
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                  Timmee
                  Participant
                  October 15, 2019
                  @Paul-M would you know if a repurchase of a licence would be required if I were to move to windows? Does FW CS6 run on 64 bit windows?
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                  Legend
                  October 15, 2019
                  Repurchase is not available. Most CS licenses could NOT be moved between platform. If you DO manage to run it on Windows you may face worsening issues with the great age of your software, but 32-bit apps are fine in Windows.
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