I got a spare mac from work because they've got an Adobe CC account, so I may as well be on it, and my old personal imac is a bit long in the tooth. I've had a week of headaches but I've more or less got it (new one) running in a way I can work with. Someone had put Catalina on it and broke its tiny mind, but now we're on Hi Sierra with legacy versions of Illustrator and Photoshop, and it's much happier.
So anyway, my old 2007 imac was running Mavericks, and going downhill for the past 12 months. I'd tried all the usual disk utility remedies, but decided I'd probably benefit from upgrading the OS. So I just upped it to El Capitan.
I'd read the model with my spec could handle ElCap quite happily, and I didn't want to push too far in case some of my old apps wouldn't run.
Imagine my disappointment when I booted up my newly installed ElCap OS to find my old faithful CS6 Photoshop doesn't want to play.
Now... it doesn't flat-out say "Can't use that version with this OS", It loads the app, but when you click on it, or away to another app then back, you just get the spinning wheel of doom.
Is there a fix, or a cheat, or a way of brute forcing it to work? Maybe some TERMINAL witchcraft? I know I have this other work machine now, but it's a loaner, and I'd like the reassurance that my old clapped-out imac still has an old version of Photoshop working, in case of emergencies. I work from home and it would be nice to have a backup.
Thanks folks.
So anyway, my old 2007 imac was running Mavericks, and going downhill for the past 12 months. I'd tried all the usual disk utility remedies, but decided I'd probably benefit from upgrading the OS. So I just upped it to El Capitan.
I'd read the model with my spec could handle ElCap quite happily, and I didn't want to push too far in case some of my old apps wouldn't run.
Imagine my disappointment when I booted up my newly installed ElCap OS to find my old faithful CS6 Photoshop doesn't want to play.
Now... it doesn't flat-out say "Can't use that version with this OS", It loads the app, but when you click on it, or away to another app then back, you just get the spinning wheel of doom.
Is there a fix, or a cheat, or a way of brute forcing it to work? Maybe some TERMINAL witchcraft? I know I have this other work machine now, but it's a loaner, and I'd like the reassurance that my old clapped-out imac still has an old version of Photoshop working, in case of emergencies. I work from home and it would be nice to have a backup.
Thanks folks.
