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NB, colourmanagement
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February 21, 2022
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Banishing residual Adobe components pre upgrading a mac to a 64 bit OSX.

  • February 21, 2022
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Hi all, I hope you're surviving the late Feb. storms - I am in the process of shifting from Mojave to Catalina and see in the mac's "System Information / 64 bit column" that there are A LOT of Adobe components there that are not 64 bit.

That seems to suggest they are no longer needed for CC [as they won't operate on 64 but mac OS]? 

 

I am guessing they are leftovers from the CS3 suite which I was using up 'til I switched to the subscription version. 

The applications are long gone (manually delted, maybe that was a mistake). 

This help page isn't much use because it seems to suggest deleting components that will be part of the CC install. https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/delete-previously-installed-application-files.html

 

Maybe others a "remove" utility?

Or perhaps I have to manually delete all of the ones listed below:

any help much apreciated

 

this tool seems unhelpful as its apparently designed to remove CC apps, not what I want. 

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

 

Nothing in Adobe Help for " remove Creative Suite apps"

 

thanks lots
neil barstow, colourmanagement net :: adobe forum volunteer:: Co-Author:Getting Colour Right
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Legend
February 21, 2022

I would do a clean install of whatever macOS version you upgrade to. Avoid carrying along cruft from everywhere.

NB, colourmanagement
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March 1, 2022

Hi Jeffrey, so: clean install, say, Catalina then "migrate"

I did used to do thjat every time in years gone by.

- I wonder how much 32 bit chaff comes over with an Apple 'migrate'?

A full clean install is quite a day long task

 

thx
neil barstow, colourmanagement net