InDesign Cs6 on OS x El Capitan

Report · Oct 03, 2015

I have just upgraded to El Capitan and I found that i could not even start up my InDesign CS6. My illustrator and other app are working fine. Just InDesign. I have already installed the java for this latest os. I am rushing my deadline. HELP!!!!!! What is wrong with my InDesign?

Report · Oct 03, 2015

Why in the world would you do an O/S upgrade in the middle of big project?

There’s not even any official word from Adobe on what is an isn’t supported.

My only suggestion is to try to trash your prefs. If that doesn’t work, uninstall, run the cleaner tool and then reinstall.

Report · Oct 03, 2015

From my experience, El Capitan does not work well with Photoshop or Acrobat, either. And I hear other people are having problems with Illustrator. I reverted back to Yosemite.

Report · Oct 03, 2015

FYI, CS6 does run on El Capitan. While I'm a CC 2015 user, I have CS6 still installed on my computers. It launches fine and seems to work on the computer I've upgraded to El Capitan.

Report · Oct 03, 2015

Here is InDesign CS6 running, but what I hear are a lot of problems others have with Photoshop, even with CC2015. Another problem what I have too is, that my scanner driver are not working and that is the reason I will revert to Yosemite. (I updated only one computer test wise.)

Report · Oct 04, 2015

I was having the same problem with InDesign CC16 on El Capitan. I turned OFF the automatically hide menu bar (located in the system prefs > general, it's a check box) and now InDesign opens.

Report · Oct 04, 2015

Turning off auto-hide menu bar seems to work! WTF . . . God knows why but thanks!

Report · Oct 19, 2015

Auto hide stopped InDesign CS6 working for me too, thanks for the help people.

Report · Oct 20, 2015

InDesign CS6 was working perfectly on my Mac until just now. The only difference between today and yesterday is that I installed the Flashplayer update this afternoon. Auto hide was never on, but I turned it on and then off again after reading this post. Nada. I must Force-Quit Indesign and this is awful because I have a project due tomorrow evening! Any ideas anyone?

Report · Oct 20, 2015

El Capitan seems to be nothing short of a crapshoot and CS6 will never see an update for it. If I were using CS6 on a mission critical machine I wouldn't have even considered moving to El Capitan.

Lots of problems reported: ‘El Crapitan:’ The biggest problems plaguing early upgraders

If the suggestions offered here and in other threads don't work, I'd hit the backup (you do have a backup, right?) and restore your system.

Report · Oct 22, 2015

I finished the project, thank goodness, and I do have a backup. That'll probably come in handy because this morning I updated El Capitan to 10.11.1 and now InD CS6 won't open at all. Yesterday it would open if I pressed the Shift+Control+Option+Command keys immediately after starting it. Will try bergeracb's suggestion of installing the old java before going to the back up. Don't say it...

"(Us) Fools never learn."

Report · Jan 18, 2016

Thanks! That worked for me:) Cheers! John

Report · Oct 05, 2015

I have a similar issue. I was doing a clean installation of Indesign (and everything else) and when it got to the Indesign part of the installation, the progress bar would stop progressing indefinitely.

Report · Oct 21, 2015

I Think you should download old java (2015-001 for OS X). Instal it then try again open. But still it cause some problems. (My indesign CS6 working slowly now )

Report · Jan 04, 2016

was panicking so much as i have a project due in a couple days and couldn't get indesign to work but turning off the automatically hide said bar option has fixed it..phew...at least for now

Report · Jan 04, 2016

T‌he InDesign CC2015.2 upgrade is said to deal with the El Capitan hide/show menu issue.

Report · Jan 04, 2016

Thanks, but like many people I will never succumb to Adobe bullying and subscribe to CC. Happy with CS6 until these stuffups

Report · Jan 05, 2016

Nobody's forcing you to, but you and those that don't see the value in CC need to be aware that at some point it simply won't work at all. Keep an older machine around and make sure you keep it well maintained.

Report · Apr 06, 2016

My issue was InDesign's fonts became problematic. All of my other CS6 applications worked fine. Here's the fix I found: hope it will work for you: Java SE 6 El Capitan - CS6 Not working on El Capitan - YouTube.