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January 14, 2022
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OS Monterey 12.1 and CS4 [CS4 IS DEAD, & CAN'T BE ACTIVATED]

  • January 14, 2022
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I use photoshop cs4 and adobe acrobat pro but they are not compatible now with OS Monterey 12.1
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    Beste Antwort von gener7

    I was just being breif. There are other problems:

    "That’s right, even if an application is 64-bit, that is not nearly enough to qualify it for Catalina and Big Sur. Apple also requires fundamental changes in how an application handles installation, security, privacy, and access to system files, because of the exact hacker threat you mentioned, so a quick 64-bit update would not have been enough anyway." Conrad C.

    It's in this thread that has some good points.

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/photoshop-cs6-not-opening-in-big-sur-update-for-mac/m-p/11649028#M490871

     

    CS6 is no longer sold or supported. So no updates and it's not going to be retooled for newer MacOS systems. About your only chance is to go Windows if you can get a version for that platform.

     

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    gener7
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    gener7Community Expert
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    January 15, 2022

    Photoshop CS4-CS6 does have a 64 bit mode but support components such as the installer are 32-bit, so it's been out of the MacOS game since Catalina 10.15

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      littlet14100498
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      October 9, 2022

      So all that is needeed is a 64 bit installer. 

      John Waller
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      John WallerCommunity Expert
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      October 9, 2022

      Which will never happen.

        Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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        Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
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        January 14, 2022

        Monterey does not support 32-bit. (I'm assuming your Acrobat Pro is as old as your Photoshop.)

         

        Your choices are to stay with an OS that works with your software (if that's even possible) or to upgrade your software. 

        David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
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          littlet14100498
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          July 21, 2022

          Yes , do no argue with people who say "I'm sorry to be the one to say this but loyal customers purchase upgrades. " I have been  customer with verified purchases though nothing was added but cost. Get rid of  couple butons, call it a different nme it is still  he same PSD you remember back at the original. 16 bit 32 bit 64 bit . An add on to mke it work within the hire bit realm would  shu off he subscripion slavery. Montery hs given me a laptop I use for one app the  cost of  couple grnd nd laptops I can't upgrade because I will lose those pps. Delightful. 

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            littlet14100498
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            October 9, 2022
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            Amazing, I raised this issue on other discussions yesterday and the Adobe police locked those discussions.

            The lie is CS5 and CS6 offered 64bit options.  


            By @Joseph D26495511k97a

            The truth is, they run 64-bit but the installers are not, which is an issue if you need to install them and you have hardware that can't boot into an older OS that can handle them.

            If you have such a situation, take your beef to Apple. 

            FWIW, I have 'owned' a copy (license) of Photoshop since version 1.0.7, and very few versions I still have can run today on my newest Mac/OS but can and still run on older hardware I've archived for this purpose. If you insist on updating your hardware and OS, that's your choice, and what older software can't run any longer doesn't run by your own doing! 

            No one forces you to use modern versions of any software and complaining about this doesn't solve the issue. 


            "I have 'owned' a copy (license) of Photoshop since version 1.0.7,"

            Yeah, I still have the CDs . And ? 

            "If you insist on updating your hardware"

            Insist?! You see this as a one software OS ? 

            "No one forces you to use modern versions of any software"

            Have you not been using computers very long? I work for companies like WB, they pay for subscriptions so there isn't a single version I am not aware of or what they can or could do.  When they started changing the software to work with multicore processors. 

            "complaining about this doesn't solve the issue. "

            That is exactly what ends up solving it Blue Line. Companies don't fix things because of praise. 

            "take your beef to Apple. "

            Apple doesn't need to compensate for lazy developers any more. Users don't need to install  Big Brothers badly written viruses that invalidate genuine software. 

            Written on a 2012 Mac Pro 12 core upgraded to 3.4GHZ with 6 SSD drives one in PCIX RAID 3 card by a 40 year professional artist.

             

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