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Mac mojave update photoshop CS6 not opening

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September 25, 2018
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Issue: Can't use CS 6 Photoshop as due to upgrade on Mojave, it shows adobe application manager is incompatible. i have updated all the software (production premium CS6) and everything else works, any ideas, contacted support but they told me to come here.

macos mojave (10.14)

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thanks for the info, I have re installed high sierra, and everything works fine now, if i get the courage to upgrade in the future I will give your solution a go!!!

cheers

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AaronShep

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I just read one Mac user on Twitter who said Photoshop CS6 wouldn't open till he removed old plugins. Then it opened just fine.

Despite the constant drumroll about subscribing, older Adobe apps sometimes work more reliably than newer versions. We already learned that with High Sierra.

Derek Cross

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It may or may not work, but one day just when you need it it'll stop or something. Professionals can't afford to take chances – after all the subscription is only around $10 a month!

D Fosse

Community Expert

Photoshop CS6 is over six years old, and there have been five major version releases since that. You are a very long way behind.

CS6 users have already had a number of issues under Sierra/High Sierra, and for each new MacOS iteration those issues multiply. We've said for a long time that CS6 will sooner or later stop working altogether. You may be at that point now.

You really need to use a current Photoshop version. A new release is due any day, it will be developed and tested for Mojave.

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Anonymous

yeah I know its old, but to be honest its got everything i need to produce what I want, but looks like i will have to go for the new versions and subscribe.

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What happens when you try to start photoshop cs6?

If you just got the message about cs6 being not optimized, similar to the below message, you can just ignore it and it won't affect the operation of photoshop cs6. It just means that some of the sub processes that cs6 uses are not 64 bit even though photoshop cs6 itself is and in some future version of macOS 32 bit apps won't run, but even apple hasn't said for sure when that will be, but you should be okay with Mojave.

This is from pse 8 since i already ran cs6.

Apple has said that for sure 32 bit apps won't work in Mac OS 10.15. A definite deadline. But the message "not optimized for your Mac" is just a nonsense message which could be written "We are putting this worrying nonsense message so you contact the makers of your software, and annoy them into making sure there is a 64 bit version of their software, so stuff will still work on 10.15 and we won't look so stupid". Software makers don't mind, though, as they will be able to sell lots of upgrades and blame Apple.

Akash Sharma

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Hi neilsy74,

Sorry that you cannot use Photoshop CS6 after upgrading to MAC OS Mojave.

Adobe has discovered the compatibility issue listed in this article with running Photoshop with macOS 10.14 Mojave: Known issues - Running Photoshop CC on macOS 10.14 Mojave

You may also refer our compatibility FAQ page here: Adobe Creative Cloud apps and macOS 10.14 Mojave compatibility issues

Thanks,

Akash

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