If for any reason CS6 needs to be installed from scratch, I don’t think there is a way to get the installer itself to how many other customers Adobe has lost since switching to subscription only?Īdobe probably lost thousands of customers who did not want to pay for a subscription.

I do not think they help if CS6 has to be installed on Big Sur for example, when buying a new Mac. None of them did it for free.Īlso: The tips shown are for getting CS6 to start up on Big Sur if it is already installed (because an existing installation was upgraded to Big Sur). Every one of those companies, including Adobe, upgraded their applications to work on the latest versions of macOS. For all of the examples above, the fix is to pay for the current version. I own the licenses forever, but macOS moved too far forward so the applications no longer work. I own perpetual licenses for similarly old versions of applications by Microsoft, Ableton, and Apple itself (old version of Final Cut Pro) that will also not run on recent versions of macOS because they don’t meet the tighter new requirements, and those old versions will never be updated again. It only stopped working in the latest versions of macOS because of changes Apple had to do to make the transition to the new fast, efficient, affordable Apple Silicon Macs. What expired it was macOS. CS6 still works today on the system versions it supports on Mac, and still works in Windows.

Just to be clear, there is no expiration date on CS6.

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