Thursday, December 28, 2017

Photoshop CS5 and OSX High Sierra

After upgrading from Mavericks to High Sierra today, I found my CS5 version of Adobe unresponsive.  I knew this was likely going to be the case and so I had purposely stayed on Mavericks until my hand was finally forced.  I typically don't wait to upgrade like this but when I spend a small fortune on Adobe products, it makes it very disturbing to have them become obsolete when upgrading.  

 I know many will say I should be willing to upgrade but I just couldn't stomach the cost of going to the new subscription based model of Adobe.  I sometimes go months at a time and don't open Photoshop or Illustrator and then I need it and use it every day for a few weeks.

 So if you are like me and want to use CS5 (and I believe this will work with CS6), then simply install the from the link below and you should regain use of your Adobe CS5 programs

 I’d been getting an error message on boot, “To open ‘CS5ServiceManager’ you need to visit the legacy Java SE 6 download website.” That must have been coming from CS5’s “helper” app that loads for me on boot (or load-ED on boot). 


Screenshot of error message

This link and download fixed my problems:
https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1572?locale=en_US

So far so good.
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1 comment:

Todd said...

After further testing, I continue to have some issues with errors on exit and when using "File Info". Other than that, I have been able to use it briefly. More extensive testing is warranted and hopefully I can find a way to resolve the issues I've encountered.

January 2, 2018 at 9:58 AM

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