Is CS6 compatible with OS X El Capitan? Specifically Illustrator and Photoshop., Is CS6 compatible with OS X El Capitan? Specifically Illustrator and Photoshop.

I want illustrator CS6 how can I find it

I have been using Adobe CS 6 under Mac OS X El Capitan for over a year now and have found stability with the Font Agent Pro 6.504 which does support El Capitan but does not support Sierra, High Sierra, and Mojave.  Photoshop and Illustrator have been efficient and stable.  InDesign CS6 has been slow to launch sometimes and becomes unresponsive with the spinning curser wheel.  I un-installed InDesign CS6, restarted my Mac, and re-installed InDesign CS6 and that seems to cure my InDesign problems under El Capitan.  Sometimes if I go from the finder to an open InDesign document, the Indesign user interface does not respond to me but, if I move from any open Adobe app into InDesign, InDesign CS6 is then responsive.

I had gone a whole year without using Alsoft DiskWarrior on my El Capitan System because I did not have the latest version, version 5.  I recently purchased DiskWarrior 5.2 and used it to optimize the directory structures on my system's boot drive.  The the directory structure optimization completed by DiskWarrior 5.2 helped my System Finder and Adobe apps to be more responsive.

A general reply, after reading several pages and also wanting to strangle someone in mgmt in both companies, apple and adobe.

Legally they are not even on THIN ice, they are stone cold wrong.  'Minor technical glitches... is a lame excuse for something that does not work right when you need it to work right.  Weed out their shills, the voices they have on the 'boards' defending them, saying 'everything is fine for me, you have the problem...'  

When the business owner, a normal user, purchases a Mac and downloads both Mac operating systems and Adobe updates legitimately, they should work.  PERIOD.

If you bought a car that is not working, you return it to the deal who fixes it for free.  If it is so bad that you can nt get it to work right, it is declared a lemon, and the 'lemon law' kicks in.  You get a replacement that works.

Why are computer operating systems any different?   Either it is well made and runs, or it doesn't.   Consider this...they want to sell self driving cars?  That is to combine this set of problems with the systems running cars now.  And they can't get this simple set of systems to work together...   Wait till people 'crash' the self driving car systems!!!   Adobe and Apple need to figure out how to get their updates to configure to WORK.

And, on another legal front:

Terms of use i.e. click yes to accept to move on) have become industry norm without decent legal vetting.  They are technically unconscionable contracts, as they are too one-sided and non-negotiable to be real contracts. Everyone, as in ALL users are forced to click to move on --in near monopoly and competitive business situations.  The arguement they give, that you do not have to click is specious now that the internet is recognized legally as an economic necessity to be competitive in business. So that makes the non-negotiable click to terms with out negotiation, unfair.  That is unfair practices.  No one calls the companies on the practice because it began with snail mail and other means besides the internet were still viable.  think of it this way, when contracts were on actual  paper I XXX out lines added lines and initialled the changes.  Both sides had to sign the document with the changes. These 'click to move on contracts are unconscionable contracts, eventually someone will prove it.

Two.  two behemoths are crashing into each other.  Apple OS systems upgrade practices, which have slowly changed to benefit Apple.

And Adobe update practices which have slowly changed to benefit Adobe.

Any wonder that the users are getting totally screwed in the process?  They have both created monopolies...

Monopolies are destined to be destroyed by new tech and innovation...the 'Cloud'  has enhanced the monopoloy status,

but that is temporary...  Also  Apple is looking for new products, moving in the wrong direction into content production.  They need to challenge Adobe.

Creative Suite 6 was released in 2012. The surefire way to keep using it into the future, as other people have mentioned, is to use an Operating System from 2012 also. The current version of Mac OS X at the time of CS6's release was 10.7 Lion. I personally have used CS6 on a 10.9 Mavericks system without any notable problems. Any versions of Mac OS X beyond 10.9 are probably not recommended.

One option is to dual-boot your Mac (meaning multiple operating systems installed simultaneously, that you choose between at boot time). Just use the Disk Utility program to partition your hard drive into multiple drives. You can then install the old version of Mac OS X on the newly added partition, while keeping the newer OS such as El Capitan on the other partition. (Obviously before making any changes to your hard drive, you should make a complete system backup, and be extra careful not to overwrite your existing partition when you shrink it to make room for a second partition.) Make a bootable USB installer for installing the old OS because you won't be able to run the old installer within the newer OS. With multiple operating systems on multiple partitions, when you boot your Mac, you hold down the Option key and you'll get a menu which lets you choose which drive to boot from. You should be able to access files from both drives in either OS.

The other option for running an old OS alongside a newer OS is to use Parallels Desktop (paid) or VirtualBox (free) to run the old OS as a virtual machine. The old OS will run inside of the new OS, in its own window or full-screen on a second desktop. Both Parallels and VirtualBox offer ways to let both operating systems access each others' files. Starting with 10.7 Lion Apple has allowed Mac OS X to run inside of a virtual machine.

I personally use Parallels on El Capitan to run 10.7 Lion and CS6 and it works great.

Assume you want to keep El Capitan as your primary operating system but your CS6 apps are not working. You want all the components of CS6 to operate just like in the earlier version of OSX you were using.

A solution would be to have both El Capitan and your previous operating system (Mavericks, Mountain Lion, etc;) running on the same computer. The CS6 would run with full function in the prior operating system when it is active. Accomplish this by installing the old operating system in a virtual machine running on the Mac on top of El Cap. 'Parallels' software allows you to set up various operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and OSX in virtual machines. (Parallels will use your previous operating system installer, which you should be able to retrieve from the App Store or backed up on your computer, to create the virtual machine.) I have Mountain Lion running in a virtual machine. I installed Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop CS6 from my Master Collection DMG and activated them without difficulty with the registration key. Although I haven't tested them extensively, they both appear to run normally without crashing. Using the Coherence environment, I can easily open files sitting in my El Capitan finder and retrieve any resources (.jpg, .mp3) in El Cap, and manipulate the files in the program in Mountain Lion. The applications close normally without crashing. I can save the altered files back to the El Cap Finder if I desire.

The Parallels software is inexpensive at $80 and seems to work around this major headache of CS6 not running well on El Cap.

Brian

I got AE CS6 to work on El Capitan 10.11.5 by a combination of everything I have read above and on other message boards. I ran into the same exact screenshot problems pictured by MarkCarolan above. But I believe it matters what order you do this in.

1) I updated the Java folder with this method: Java SE 6 El Capitan - CS6 Not working on El Capitan - YouTube

2) I downloaded a clean version of After Effects CS6 here: Download Adobe Creative Suite 6 applications

3) I uninstalled my current AE and reinstalled using the new download.

4) Then I downloaded the 11.0.4 AE update and installed that: Adobe - After Effects : For Macintosh : Adobe After Effects CS6 11.0.4 Update

What we did is to move to other non-Adobe software from CS6 and we are very happy with this decision. No more worrying or waiting for Adobe to support OSX El Capitan or future OSX versions.  There are plenty of choices out there.  Find the ones that work for you and drop Adobe.

I'm curious if anyone is running Adobe SC6 on an early 2009 MacPro and upgraded to El Capitan WITHOUT any problems?  I'm always racing a deadline and I'm perfectly happy running Snow Leopard. Never crashes - no fonts weirdness - no delays in drawing - it all works great.

But now I'm having my browsers all tell me it's time to upgrade my OS system. So I could see that spelling trouble after a while.

Anyhow - is anyone running my same machine (early 2009 MacPro - with a SSD boot drive) and is HAPPY with El Capitan?

Thanks for any replies...

I sure am glad that people are giving advice and opinions on this forum to help others fix their problems. My CS6 is still running correctly with OS 10.11.3, but now it's asking me to upgrade to 10.11.4 and I am very leery of that.

I do have one more wish, and that is that someone from Adobe would actually visit their own freaking forum and try to help out the massive amount of people having issues with software that they purchased from them only a couple of years ago. I don't know about you, but I spent over $1K for my software and I don't just have that kind of money laying around to throw it in the garbage so I can spend more to the people I just gave it to. I mean COME ON! What ever happened to good customer service? Or even just customer service? It doesn't seem to exist anywhere anymore. It's all about the money and who cares about the customer.

OS X 10.6.8, is still touted as one of the most stable OSs, Apple ever produced.  If you have CS6 and want to continue using it, hard drives are cheap these days.  Create a dual boot system and install CS6 on your Snow Leopard partition.  I'm running dual boot, specifically because 10.6.8 is practically bullet proof and I would trade bells and whistles for stability, any day of the week.  You may even have enough space of your current hard drive or drives to simply partition it, avoiding the purchase of additional hardware.