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It sound like you miss the life raft Adobe through you. You did not grab hold of it to download a newer CS3 Installer that does not require activation for CS3 version it install with your new CS3 serial number you received with the download when you provided your old CS3 serial number. Adobe no longer provides any support for Old 32bit applications. New Mac computers do not support 32bit Application. New Apple Processors can not run X86 code. And not all X86 code can be translated into code for Apple ARM processor and macOS. Thing do stand still and you are responsible for maintaining you machines and software. You missed Adobe life raft. I'm past 80 I did not miss Adobe Life Raft so I can install CS3 on Windows PC. If you have old Mac hardware and software that can run 32bit CS3. If you had grabbed Adobe's life raft you could install CS3 on that old machine. However, You original CS3 installer requires CS3 Activation that services no longer exists. You did not keep your CS3 Up to date. You miss Adobe's CS3 life raft. Can you use your box camera on your old Mac or new Mac.
CS2 can no longer be activated it too had a Life Raft
I have the CS2 and CS3 new installers and serial numbers. Now I'm past 80 and can no longer download these newer versions so I keep them well backuped. On rare occasions I will use CS3. Cs2 does not run all that well on Windows 10 so I do not use it. Photoshop 2020 IMO is the best version of Photoshop that I have installed.
Then the Mac Mini crashed. The saved backup wouldn't reinstall on it. Fortunately I was still able to use CS3 on the Mac Pro, until it too crashed. Couldn't reinstall from the backup since Yosemite and Snow Leopard don't get along very well.
By @juanfordroad
It looks like the problem is not Photoshop, but the failing hardware. Adobe did not built-in a software bomb. Adobe did switch off the old activation servers, probably because their support dried up too.
The activation servers for CS4 are still running.
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AFAIK, CS4 activation servers are kaput. Offline activation might still be possible, I don't know.
Offline Activation, generate a response code.
https://exception.licenses.adobe.com/aoes/aoes/v1/t1
AFAIK, CS4 activation servers are kaput. Offline activation might still be possible, I don't know.
By @Nancy OShea
Hi @Nancy OShea .
There's a kink in the space-time continuum with CS4 activation.
Although the CS4 activation servers are officially dead, CS4 can still be activated for use on a fresh install on a computer where CS4 has never previously been installed. I successfully activated CS4 myself a couple of months ago just as a proof of concept.
I fail to understand why the code was written... that makes it necessary to have internet permission to reinstall software which was paid for and owned by me.
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To thwart piracy. Technically you don't own anything. Adobe owns the software. You merely purchased a limited license to use it.
From the Creative Suite End User License Agreement (EULA):
ADOBE AND ITS SUPPLIERS OWN ALL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE SOFTWARE. THE SOFTWARE IS LICENSED, NOT SOLD.
THE SOFTWARE MAY INCLUDE PRODUCT ACTIVATION AND OTHER TECHNOLOGY DESIGNED TO PREVENT UNAUTHORIZED USE AND COPYING.
https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/legal/licenses-terms/pdf/CS5.pdf
I stand corrected.
Lawyers 1, Consumers 0.
By @juanfordroad
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If the shoe was on the other foot, I guarantee you would do the same.
Besides, you got 15 years of usage from software that had a 3 year shelf-life. That's a lot of FREE mileage from a single tank of gas.
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