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Serial Number on creative Suite 5.5 design standard is not recognized and error 5 code for Indesign and illustrator

  • May 13, 2016
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I needed to have my Mac operating system reloaded, and can now no longer access Create Suite 5.5 Design Standard after I have installed it.

I am currently on Mac OSX version 10.8.5

When I try to open InDesign or Illustrator I get a message that says 'configuration error 5.' and am advised to contact 'Adobe support' (which I have done and they are no help at all) and when I try to open Adobe Photoshop and enter my product serial number, it says "This serial number is not valid for this product".

Please help?

Thanks in advance.

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    Correct answer John T Smith

    Once again, I find myself UTTERLY DISGUSTED with the ineptitude of the support staff at Adobe.  For a company that charges hundreds of dollars for their products you'd think they would actually have decent staff able to help with problems with their software… Apparently I'm asking way too much.

    My questions still unanswered and the problem from May 13, 2016 STILL not resolved.  You folks need to seriously get it together.

    Robert Sheldon (in the Help department) sent me this message:   "Kindly setup skype its free search on google and provide your skype ID so support person will contact you Immediately as a live chat."  I've done that.  No call has come.

    I've just wasted another 3 hours, with chat support, with staff (whom I contacted myself when it became obvious the Skype call back was not going to be forthcoming) asking the same questions over and over and don't have any clue what they are doing.  The 'Adobe Application Manager' your staff member Shilpa insisted I download during our chat 'support' (June 11, 2016 : 24:15am EST) has achieved precisely NOTHING and in fact seems to have made matters worse.  Trying to uninstall these programs is now blocked at 2% completed, and frozen and unmoving for the last hour.

    Where is the help to get problems resolved in a timely matter.

    Adobe, your service is embarrassingly poor.

    Unimpressed is an understatement.


    WARNING... any request to use Skype is a SCAM... Adobe does not use Skype

    Please post the actual user ID here so Adobe may ban that user from the forums

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    tonyf28775684
    Participating Frequently
    May 13, 2016

    I'm sorry I haven't got a clue what these links are pertaining to… They don't look related to my question at all.

    John T Smith
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    Community Expert
    May 13, 2016
    tonyf28775684
    Participating Frequently
    June 12, 2016

    WARNING... any request to use Skype is a SCAM... Adobe does not use Skype

    Please post the actual user ID here so Adobe may ban that user from the forums


    Is that the best you've got John T Smith?  That's your solution to the ever increasing problem with getting your products to work?

    You folks at Adobe must surely have access to the messages coming through to me (top right corner when I'm logged into your site) The person who wrote is "Help.RobertSeldon Adobe Systems Incorporated <forums_noreply@adobe.com> (800)833-6687"

    John T Smith
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    May 13, 2016