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Brand new iMac, troubles installing stuff
« on: March 04, 2020, 02:10:42 PM »
My oldest Mac is slower than ever now, at least 10 years old. Still runs fine and everything just awfully slow.
So I bought a new 27, its great, but OMG, just try to move over some of your favorite software and get it up and running.
Its 64 bit, not 32, so lots wont work anyway.

Spent the entire morning and half the afternoon just installing Photoshop and a FTP program.
Darn glad I have this one, its only 7 years old and everything works just fine(and fast) on it.

Anybody else have problems installing old favorite programs on a new one?
I even had to have Adobe do screen sharing to get my stuff installed, and even the tech support person had trouble.

But its working well now, but do I really want to install more stuff. Take a rainy day when I dont have to do anything else.
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Re: Brand new iMac, troubles installing stuff
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2020, 03:39:10 PM »
I'm not sure whether there was a question in there... ?

Yes - a new Mac will require some work - especially if the old one wasn't running the latest OS and latest version of all software.

Adobe software (permanent license) typically needs to be deactivated on old hardware before installing on new - you cannot just move it. However, Photoshop CS 6 won't install on Catalina - the installer is 32 bit and the application has 32 bit dependencies. AFAIK, it won't run period (though have seen a few references to some hackery) If you have Adobe PS Classic/CC you should be able to deactivate on the old Mac, and then install and activate in on the new Mac. You can have it installed on as many computers as you like, activated on two and actually running on ONE, at any given time.
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Re: Brand new iMac, troubles installing stuff
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2020, 04:05:33 PM »
Thank you for explaining this.
I did deactivate it, and I found that the 64 bit was a roadblock.
I think Ive got everything going OK for now.
And have to see about some of the other programs which I need.

I was astonished at the time and trouble that the Adobe tech support person had to deal with to get things working.
She said something about the newest Mac OS was 'a problem' with things.
But she stuck with it and its OK now.

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