Acrobat 7, Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop CS5 on OS X El Capitan?

[Guest]

I am upgrading a Mac with OS X 10.6.8 to OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) and I want to make sure the installed versions of Acrobat 7, Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop CS5 are compatible with OS X 10.11.6 or can be upgraded for free to a point where they are. If they do run, how well do they run on El Capitan and how much memory would you recommend? The computer only has 3gb so I'm planning on moving to 16gb as it would cost ~$90.

[John Waller · Accepted solution]

kymb18520753 wrote:

I am upgrading a Mac with OS X 10.6.8 to OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) and I want to make sure the installed versions of Acrobat 7, Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop CS5 are compatible with OS X 10.11.6

For CS2, no, definitely not. They are PowerPC applications written for old Macs with PowerPC processors.

New Macs use Intel processors and the two are not compatible.

The Mac OSX operating system did support PowerPC apps up until OS X 10.6.8. But they have not been supported since OS X 10.7.

Photoshop CS5 should run on El Capitan although it is not officially tested or supported by Adobe.

[Guest]

Thank you, that explains why I left this computer on 10.6.8 for so long. I'll look into what upgraded versions of the software will cost. Thanks!

[magalim37964247]

Do you know if all the creative CS5.1 is working with OS 10.11 including illustrator ?

thanks for your help

[John Waller]

Should be OK. Have you tried it?