why my g5 imac won't run photoshop 7

[tedn40644681]

previously my g5 imac, os 10.6, would run photoshop 7. then i changed my hd to solid state and ps7 would not run. any ideas, thanks?

[Test Screen Name]

Messages? Maybe the HD is too big, happens a lot to Windows users.

[Sahil.Chawla]

Hi Tedn,

Sorry to hear that, do you get any sort of error while launching Photoshop?

Regards,
Sahil

[tedn40644681]

the ss hd is only 250 gb.  it seems normal during install, when i open it says "unrecoverable problem due to program error, ps will exit"

[Sahil.Chawla]

Could you try creating a new user account and see if Photoshop works on that account? Creating a New User Account - Mac OS X 10.6 - Troubleshooting Pro Tools® - YouTube

[Test Screen Name]

Did you reinstall it, or try to migrate/install it? This may be unsolvable because you are mixing technology of different eras.

[Jeff Arola]

Photoshop 7 won't run on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, not even with Rosetta.

As far as i know, the last mac OS X photoshop 7 would run on was the PowerPC version of Mac OS X 10.4.

Further more with Mac OX X 10.5 Leopard being the last version of OS X to run on a G5, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard won't work since G5's are PowerPC and 10.6 Snow Leopard requires an Intel processor mac.

Please recheck what Mac computer model your using and version of Mac OS X your running by going to Apple>About This Mac.

Also verify what version of photoshop your trying to install.

[tedn40644681]

thanks to all replies. my g5 computer (imac 7,1) has: os 10.6, want to run photoshop 7, it ran ps7 before i changed my hd to solid state. not after.

sahil: i created a new user account, same error message.

jeff: i will try osx 10.4, strange that it worked before hd change.

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

A imac 7,1 is a Mid 2007 Core 2 Dou Intel processor mac, not a G5.

You had mac osx 10.6 snow leopard before the ssd?

If you had mac os x 10.4 before the ssd upgrade it's possible photoshop 7 could have run on that even though the os is intel.

From what i know the reason photoshop 7 won't run on mac os x 10.5 and 10.6 is due to the way those macs

handle memory and photoshop 7 can't cope with it.

I have never heard or personally experimented with the Intel version of mac os x 10.4 to see if it will run photoshop 7, since

they are not all that common.

I have tried ps7 on intel/powerpc 10.5 and intel 10.6 and it didn't work as other people including adobe had said it would not.

[tedn40644681]

thanks jeff, i was running os 10.6 before and it ran photoshop 7, i can't figure that out. but will try 10.4 or sooner, to see if that works.

[Jeff Arola]

Just for future reference photoshop 7 does run on an Intel processor mac running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger, just not on Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 Intel versions.

[JonathanArias]

you got server going that is not the same as the Os that everybody else would have in their machine.

[Jeff Arola]

Same basic system just with additional server software and server management/administration tools.

[JonathanArias]

yeah but you have to buy the server edition dont' you?

i guess i don't see the point on buying the server edition to run software that old when for less money you can have the new software.

[Test Screen Name]

We are saying that a G4 cannot run 10.6 at all. End of story. That’s why we asked you to check and tell us the system it actually does Run.

[Test Screen Name]

And also G5. To be clear; we are saying part of your original question must have wrong info. Please check so you can tell us the actual situation.

[Lumigraphics]

You don't have a G5 iMac, you have an Intel iMac. And Photoshop 7 will not run on 10.6. You SERIOUSLY need to upgrade.

OS X 10.6 has long since ceased getting security updates. Photoshop 7 is long since obsolete and unsupported.

You can buy a newer iMac cheaply; I picked up a mid-2011 iMac for $350 last year. It runs High Sierra and the current version of Photoshop CC.

[tedn40644681]

thanks test and lumi.

i double checked (it is os 10.6) and my imac 24" (whatever it is) ran ps7 before changing to ss hd. it also runs freehand 10 which is my main program. i use gimp since ps7 does not work, but it is inferior to ps7. i also have a two year old imac 27" which is my main computer. i want to avoid an annual rental fee for photoshop. by the way, changing to ss hd made my old mac 2.5 times faster and it runs freehand.

[gener7]

Can you screenshot the "About this Mac" splash screen so we can confirm.

Just marquee select it using Cmd Shift 4 and upload the screenshot here.

[tedn40644681]

downloaded 10.5, i am now in os 10.5, freehand works, but not ps7, can't get past vise password.

[Test Screen Name]

Please show a screen shot of your error message. Do not email it though.

[Lumigraphics]

I'll be surprised if you get this to work. Its all old software which none of us has around anymore. There are no more security fixes and honestly its a really bad idea to even try.

I'm going to bow out because I don't want to help with a long-since unsupported system.

[JonathanArias]

i am surprise you can even run that OS, the G5 was the last machine made before the switched to Intel processors.

[Test Screen Name]

I think we’ve established it isn’t a G5 -or- it isn’t 10.6. But we’re wait for the About this Mac screen shot we asked for.

[tedn40644681]

here it is http://picture 2.png