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My Gear: iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) Processor: 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory: 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 Graphics Card: AMD Radeon R9 M380 2048 MB

iOS: High Sierra 10.13.6

Preferences: The programs that are problematic are enabled. Only Photoshop works.

Problem: I have been running CS5 for quite a few years now, relatively trouble free other than some minor quirks.

Primarily, I use Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, InDesign.

Yesterday, everything but Photoshop all suddenly came to a crashing halt. Cannot start up the programs again. A long time ago, I turned off all auto updates.

What changed? Why, out of the blue, would all these Adobe programs just stop working?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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    CS5 really isn't supported beyond El Capitan. People have managed to keep it limping along until Sierra, but High Sierra's APFS & lack of support for legacy Java is really going to make life difficult. Maybe see blog.conradchavez.com/2017/09/25/… for some hints, but be prepared to either roll back your OS, or invest in current versions.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Apr 7, 2020 at 17:18
  • Thank you for that link. Greatly appreciated. I am currently waiting a Cable from Amazon so I can try a recovery from my MacBook Pro. I used to be an Authorized Apple Dealer and Adobe reseller. I cannot stand, with every breath in my body, Adobe. Garbage company based on that experience. Classic, greedy sleazy big company. They will never get another dime from me. If I have to, will regress OS. It worked fine for years, just stopped out of the blue. Hoping to reinstall older backup, may set it right again.
    – Art
    Commented Apr 8, 2020 at 18:43
  • Here is the kicker .... APPLE, in their infinite wisdom.... has made it virtually impossible to roll back! I will be honest, I am totally disgusted by APPLE! Why? I purchased their computer and I fully EXPECT THE RIGHT To CHOOSE WHICH OS I USE ESPECIALLY THE ONE I PURCHASED WITH THE SYSTEM!!! Why do I have to struggle to make a boot disc of the system I was using?!?!?!!!! I don’t need their support! I don’t want their support! I want to load MY OS OF CHOICE I PAID FOR WHEN I PURCHASED THE SYSTEM!!! End of story!
    – Art
    Commented Apr 22, 2020 at 15:34
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    Golden rules before any major update: 1) make sure all your mission critical software will run on it & 2) Make sure you can get back to the old OS if you find a blocker [this will involve a clone as well as Time Machine, in case of emergency]. You cannot blame Apple for your lack of foresight. Sorry, but life just doesn't work that way.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Apr 22, 2020 at 15:48
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    1) Major OS upgrades do not happen on their own. Never have, never will. 2) Rather than ranting in here, which is doing little except keeping me amused, why not post a question on Ask Different, 'How do I get back to El Capitan?'
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Apr 26, 2020 at 11:26

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After paying $1800 at the time for Adobe Creative Suite CS5, I too have no desire to go to a cloud based "pay for play" software, especially during these uncertain financial times.

Have you tried having two hard drives which contain two different operating systems on them?

I have Mac OS 10.8.5 on one hard drive so that I can used Steinberg's Cubase version 6, and I have MAC OS 10.13.6 Hign Sierra on a my main hard drive - I just switch to my "downgrade" hard drive and keep working...and you can access both drives from the menu like normal.

That was my saving grace! I can still use Photoshop on 10.13.6, but it won't let me run Adobe Premiere CS5.

Sadly, in all my Mac years no one ever told me I could do that. It would've saved me a lot of upgrade money when a new OS didn't work with my audio software (especially WAVES plugins which I paid lots of money for and it became obsolete, since WAVES too is on a cloud-based-pay-to-play model)

Hope this helps.

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  • You could also use a Virtual Machine: an OS running as an app inside your current OS.
    – benwiggy
    Commented Jul 13, 2020 at 11:43

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