Warning to people using Old Adobe Software

I have to agree. And the comments here have not been fair

The user accepts there will be no support, upgrades etc etc etc - they just dont want Adobe to "break" tje software

I have experienced exactly the same - perfect use of CS6 on MBP2015 High Sierra and then with a CC release (and no I dont know what it did) but with NO  other changes to the system except this CC update - all CS6 stopped working dead

So - please understand what the OP was saying. They understand all the comments about forever buying the latest software and the misery of Saas that means you have to rent the software - where as before you could buy it and choose when / if to upgrade

For my part I reinstalled the CS6 software and it all started working again (so yes - whatever the update, it was adobe - and even f it didnt related to CS6 the update broke it, and reinstalling it fixed it)

BTW I have a CC subscription and recently upgraded to Catalina, only to find the new PS DOES work but Premier Pro doesnt (what a mess)

SO consulting compatibility I now have to upgrade all over again to Monterey - but giess what if Adobe maintains its policy of demading the OSX be upgraded EVERY year *staggering* then next year they will force me to upgrade my HARDWARE (and I have a laptop with unused battery, mint screen, super fast 2.8 GHz processor 1TB SSD etc etc etc - but no - Adobe wants me (demands) me to upgrade  in a year  or else I will be locked out of CC forever. (Ive been in creative industries for 20 years - and that has never happened)

Funny how adobe and Apple (bed fellows for 35 years) seem to be able to juggle OSC and CC upgrades so they both get users to upgrade without choice. (ANd its getting worse)

So I have more sypathy for the OP than most. Not really going to get into further debate. 

I COMPLETELY sympathize. I understand that we can't expect Adobe to keep their old software up-to-date and compatible with every new OS iteration in perpetuity.  But they should not mess with software that we ALREADY OWN and actively do something to render it unusable, which is what they've done here. My friend, who's a freelancer, actually designated a computer strictly for professional work, and made it unable to connect to the internet. She does her graphics/design projects on it, transfers finished product to USB drives and then either plugs the drive into an internet-connected laptop to upload to client servers, or physically gives drives to clients. It's a total pain in the neck, but she spent $5,000 on a good setup a few years ago and can't afford to upgrade to CC for quite a while, and was afraid of accidentally activating an automatic upgrade that would run everything.  We shouldn't have to be so paranoid.

Please contact Adobe regarding this matter as this is a user group designed to assist users to resolve their issues and your issue is with Adobe directly.

Sorry to tell you but this is now subscription based, you don't own CC software you have a subscription to it. That means they get change the terms and software at their whim. I just got a forced update to most recent version of photoshop,  I just wnt to go back to before they started screwing with the interface, but sadly cannot. I understand your frustration, but know there's nothing we can do except stop using the software.

Look at all the people who literally did NOT READ what I posted.

Let me break it down again.  I have CS5 Master Suite.  In OCTOBER 2019, Calatina was released for Mac OS.  All studio, office, and personal systems were updated.  Since that update, FOR 7 MONTHS, the software continued to work flawlessly with no issues for myself and EVERYONE in the studio.  The Start of 2019, I was required to download the new Adobe Creative Cloud, that's where I reinstalled CS5 from, to get it back on my new Imac pro, the new system with the "old software".

So again, I will repeat this for the 3rd time now, for 7 months past the release of Catalina, the software worked fine, there was never any issues or conflicts in the use from myself and nearly 30 to 40 others in the studio who actively used it.

Until about ~May 10th, when Adobe had an update on the whole "Creative Cloud" system, that is when ALL of our software mysteriously stopped working.  This was some type of update directly from Adobe.  This doesn't mean they were updating CS5 directly.  This means that some licensure update or anything related to the old CS5 system was then cut off and the license itself was blocked and removed, so ANYONE using it can no longer use it and is forced to update.

You guys keep posting links to nonsense that DOES NOT RELATE.   We already know that there is no updated support for CS5.  We already know that you are trying to force us to spend $10/month so Adobe can profit more from that system.  The fact is, the software cost nearly $1,500, I wanted CS5 alone for a reason, for the uses that we have it for.  We don't want to "upgrade" and use the new formats or the new tools within the new updated software.  For what we use it for, we had the tools and capabilities to KEEP using the CS5 software, until Adobe just blocked us out of it with an update licensure block.

There is no point to update or use new tools and systems for what we are using it for.  It's also expenditure to dish out another 50-100k for the training, then another 300-450k for updating our systems to meet the new software backend and plugins, to develop what we need again.  Which will only be a waste of money and time, since the CS5 has the tools that the new versions try to over complicate with the UI changes.  The re-development alone is the biggest factor.

Which goes along with their press release about seeing people who are using older software.  

We don't care if it's updated or monitored or has any future hotfixes.  We do our own development to make it work with the current or previous OS system as we see fit.  But when Adobe used their updating system to block the license from their side, it then becomes Illegal for myself or my staff to develop a workaround, because we will then be manipulating code in the software, which is against the policies of the use.


Again, they blocked the older licensures, it wasn't a Mac OS system issue, or the software wouldn't have worked for over 7 months while our systems were on Catalina.

»Upon checking into it today from my personal account, I saw that Adobe had just released an update in the last 2 weeks for Photoshop.«

For Photochop CS5? Are you sure? 

Could you please post some proof for this claim? 

Quite frankly I think Manan Joshi put it very well already. 

You having been able to use obsolete software on a current OS (and hardware) was lucky coincidence and your complaint seems to lack merit. 

If you have a computer that can run Catalina, then you have a modern system, so perhaps you should upgrade your software to suit it. The Photography Plan, which includes the latest version of Photoshop (and you'll see some exciting new features that weren't available in your years-old version) plus updates as they become available and Lightroom and cloud storage for just around $10 a month. 

(If you want to run your old software, get an old computer that can run an old operating system. This class action idea comes up from time-to-time, it never comes to anything!)

I run an older Mac with an olkder OSX. ALl of my Adobe software no longer works.  Says can't authenticate.  Never received a message from Adobe about this and now I am noit able to work!  I too had paid a good sum of money for CS  design suite,2,3,4  also Dreamweaver 6, Firworks 6 and more. Why was this done? and how can I get these working again?   This is not making for very good customer relations!

Hi there,

I do understand your anger and frustration around not being able to get your purchased software work. However in my opinion you are a bit misplaced in your opinion about the matter. CS5 is a very old software, and no where can you claim that Adobe or for that matter any software firm would guarantee that a software would work on all the forthcoming versions of the OS. Based on my search i see that the recommended MAC OS for CS5 is 10.6, see the following

https://prodesigntools.com/products/adobe-cs5-system-requirements.html

Now i don't see how is Adobe is responsible to keep this software running on 10.15. For your point that it was working and stopped working after an update, the update was meant for people using on the recommended OS not the ones on non recommended OS. So for every point that you make in support of making the software compatible with the latest OS, there will always be another group that would be using it in the recommended environment. For me the second group will always take precedence. You can't pass a lucky aberration as the norm. I am also a developer who sells software, and i can rightfully say no one can force me to release an update to a software i sold 10 years ago, nor would i support any case for supporting a platform that was not even in existence when i sold the software. Hope this makes sense, in my experience this is how softwares and developers work, they can't anticipate what a future OS would hold in terms of support for my current offering

-Manan