![]() ![]() ![]() When you need to use your old Adobe and or 64/32bit software, boot up your Mac from the external SSD running Mojave and your old apps and viola! From there you can upgrade your OS to the latest Mac OS. Once you confirm your Mac boots off the new external SSD and runs properly, shut down your Mac, disconnect the new SSD and boot from the Mac HD. Cloning hard drive to an external SSD.Link to setting up SSD as external boot drive:.IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Make sure you BACK UP your Mac with time machine before doing any of this! :) A quick search online will turn up using vmware or parallels for option #1. Here's a nice video tutorial to set up the latter option. If you're on a fairly quick Mac, moving from the SSD to the internal OS shouldn't take more than a minute. The last option requires you to log out from your account to then boot from the external drive, but will probably help you stay focused when you're working in Lightroom or Adobe. Option 2 below will require that you clone your Mac hard drive to and external SSD like the Sandisk Extreme 1Tb or any SSD with fast read write (1gb transfer rate) using USB 3 or USB C. Just make sure you have a fairly new Mac with ample disk space 500Gb - 2Tb and memory of 16 - 32Gb. CS 6 and other 64/32 bit software should run fine there and you can move between monterey and mojave easily. Then restore your backed up system from time machine on the virtual machine. Option 1: Backup your current system with time machine, install VMware or Parallels and install Mojave in the virtual machine. That said, there's a couple other options that will cost a little upfront but will allow you keep using your old Adobe software running. I don't use lightroom or photoshop enough make the $$ warrant paying their usage royalties. I too don't want to fork over adobe's exorbitant subscription fees. I'm in the same boat with my 2015 macbook pro 13". I mainly use that for the video stuff I occasionally do. I can still use my CS6 Master Collection I have installed on a Mojave partition if I want to on a 2018 Mac Mini. I have no use for Lightroom, but wanted to keep Photoshop CC because it has features I use a lot that don't exist in CS6. It's only $10 per month that way instead of $53. I knocked the Creative Cloud suite down to the Photography version only of Photoshop and Lightroom. Only Inkscape and VivaDesigner are free, but at least the others are perpetual license products. It's the only one I found that can both read and write InDesign files. Replaced by the free version of VivaDesigner. The free and excellent eM Client replaces Outlook. That gives you near equivalent versions of Word, PowerPoint and Excel. If you download the free version, it has a link within it to purchase the full version suite for only $30. I've been replacing everything I normally used with free, or much cheaper alternatives. The wife and I are also close to retiring. The apps, despite the very expensive upgrades, cost far less than what they earned me by having them. It was just part of the cost of doing so. I used these apps for a small, in-home business. That is just the way things are.Īs noted by woodmeister50, not snarky at all. Whether you like it or not, technology will continue to move on and new apps will be developed to replace the old and vendors will eventually end support for old apps. Start a Creative Cloud subscription which will always keep apps up to date.Īfter 11 years, you certainly have got your use out of the original purchase.Revert to an OS that the apps did work with (and make sure you have a supply of old computers when your current one finally dies).In addition, it is absurd to think that Apple (or Microsoft for that matter) should be concerned that obsolete software doesn't work on an OS. So, for one, it is the app vendors responsibility to insure compatibility with an OS, which Adobe has done with their Creative Cloud suite. Not just in our minds but in Adobe's as well since they dropped all support and obsoleted it 4 years ago! I am aware that this is (in your mind) an antiquated software. ![]()
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