Migration wizard help with Adobe photoshop

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Migration wizard help with Adobe photoshop

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I just bought a fancy new 20" IMac and successfully migrated most of the old emac information. I tried loading up my Photoshop CS with the old comp. still hooked up through Firewire, and it started just fine, but when I tried to load it up when the old computer was not hooked up, it would not load. Same as trying the version 7.0. If i re-connect the old comp in it's firewire transfer mode (pressing T during start-up) and try to load up Photoshop again, it does work.

I looked at the files and it seems to be an exact duplicate from the old comp. so i don't think it is missing anything, but i do not know as much about computers as i used to..apparently.

Can anyone shed some light on how I can get my photoshop active without having the old comp. hooked up.

I appreciate your time

Barry

IMac, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 25, 2008 9:35 AM

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Answer 1

JMF

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Mar 25, 2008 9:38 AM in response to Bicycle-rider

Photoshop doesn't transfer through the migration assistant (at least with my experience). You have to reinstall Photoshop from the disk to replace those missing files.

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Answer 2

Mar 25, 2008 9:48 AM in response to Bicycle-rider

As JMF has suggested, you should reinstall Photoshop from scratch rather than trying to migrate it.

You should also know that Photoshop 7 is not compatible with Leopard and Adobe has no plans to update it.

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Answer 3

Mar 25, 2008 10:25 AM in response to JMF

I did hear that, but it has seemed to transfer. I have Migrated the program over and it shows up on my new hardrive, but it cannot run without the old computer being online through the Firewire. The new Mac seems to need some sort of permission or file from the old mac to load up fully. So there is no way to find the part of the program that still exists on the old hardrive?

The other problem I have is that my Photoshop 7, and CS are upgrades, I no longer have my 5 & 6 full program discs (if i do have them, i have not seen them in a long time) Do you know if I can install an upgrade based on what information I was able to transfer from the old Mac? or do I need a full program re-installed on the new mac for the upgrades to work? I havn't tried it yet, thought i would ask first to save another headache

Thanks

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