CS2 not installing

[Guest]

I am following the instructions to re-install CS2 now that my legally-bought original suite won't work, and I am following the Adobe instructions to the letter, for the new downloaded version with the new serial number, and it installed In Design alone. It is the third time now that I am trying to get the suite properly and I am not getting neither Photoshop nor Illustrator.

I also tried to download After Effects since I also bought it at the same time I bought CS2 and it is not doing anything, it won't do it.

[John Waller]

Which operating system are you running?

[Guest]

It's a big Desktop Mac on Snow Leopard, and the CS2 I bought worked perfectly well in that computer, mac that I bought at the same time as my CS purchase, so hardware and software are perfectly compatible and of the same generation.

I only upgraded that machine’s previous OSX to Snow Leopard and left it at that. Now it’s the only mac I still have where my CS could work and it worked there very well up until this recent messing about.

[Guest]

I am replying to my own answer because I have no apparent way to follow up the same discussion. Will that CS2 "new download" work on a Mac Pro Quad Xeon 64-bit "workstation" with Snow Leopard? It was working on that up until you changed whatever it was you did. 

It was also working on a MacBook Pro I had also on Snow Leopard, up until very sadly that one broke down as hardware.

Will this "new CS2" work on a MacBook Pro with Lion OSX?

Is there nothing else I can do?

[Govardhan.V]

Have you tried installing Photoshop individually from the list of downloads ?

Download Acrobat 7 and CS2 products

Photoshop CS 2  is power pc app especially designed for Mac computer in older days.

I dont think Mac OS X 10.7 will run Photoshop CS 2.  You better go for later versions like CS 6  , CC.

[Guest]

Hi Brucgovn

In answer to your question: yes I tried to download the individual applications, to no avail.

I am also confused because when I run / install the downloaded version (on the "dmg disk" installed on the desktop, from the download), then it does ask me to insert the original CS2 discs (discs 1 and 3 only) which is fine because I do have all the discs, but then after all has been done and installed as instructed, no Photoshop, no Illustrator, nothing else apart of In Design.

The reason I am keen on CS2 over newer versions is that I did buy CS2 -and for a lot of money too- so I own it. I know CS5 very well because I worked on it when employed by companies who had it, but CS2 I bought and own and I have the right to still use it.

[Kaewngam]

Mac OS Snow Leopard was the last version of the operating system that could run older PowerPC programmes. It will not run on Mac OS Lion or any later versions.

To run on Snow Leopard it requires something called “Rosetta” to be installed which is an emulator to allow older PowerPC code to run.

Rosetta is not installed by default if you instal from your system disks so if you have changed anything it might be worth while checking if it is installed.

I’ve never done this but found this onlinek:

Check the /private/var/db/ folder for an item named RosettaVersion. To navigate to this folder, use the Go to Folder command in the Finder's Go menu.

If Rosetta is installed then there is something else going on as the special version from Adobe certainly should work on Snow Leopard.

[Guest]

Hi Kaewngam

I know about Rosetta, and I did have my CS2 working perfectly in my old Mac Pro Quad Xeon, so if Rosetta is why I am having issues it may be because there's something is wrong with Rosetta at Adobe's end, not mine.

I repeat, I had all CS2 running perfectly well on my older Mac Pro Quad Xeon 64-bit "workstation" with Snow Leopard, so why is it now not running when it was OK before, I still do not have answers. I need my CS back on and I don't see why should I have to deal with this nightmare.

[Govardhan.V]

You may refer below link :

Upgrading to 10.7 and above, don't forget Rosetta! | Apple Support Communities

[Guest · Accepted solution]

To all of those who tried to help me, an update:

I did manage now, after days of trying, to download the individual applications separately, and finally this time I could do it.

Why did it not allow me to do that before I will never know. That's a question for the ages, and / or for someone at Adobe who would like to investigate.

It was definitely not a straightforward process. At all.

The InDesign that I downloaded separately this second time round, clashed with the InDesign that did install OK first time (if you are following this closely, the InDesign that did install OK first time was part of the CS2 package that I downloaded originally. That "first InDesign" was the only application of the original CS2 download that worked after installing while nothing else would).

The good news is that finally after a lot of stress and many days of trying, I'm back at being able to use my software like I used to do, SO FAR. How long for? That's another question and for the sake of my mental health I won't speculate any further on that aspect.

The not so good news is that now I can only run my CS2 on my HUGE MacPro Quad Xeon that weighs a ton, is the size of a piece of furniture and it's the exact opposite of a mobile device. So I can work on it, for now, but only if I am at a fixed address.

My CS2 was running like a dream on a MacBook pro I had on Snow Leopard, but this whole huge crisis of mine started a fortnight ago when that MacBook of mine died a tragic death and no new portable machine bought today would run CS2 anymore, because no new machine bought today would have Snow Leopard re-installed any longer.

So, all it really takes is a MacBook still having Snow Leopard and Bob's your uncle. The combined efforts of apple and adobe say you can't have that now.