Uninstalling CS5
I updated to Catalina OS before uninstalling old Adobe CS5 suite, and now I am unable to perform a simple uninstall bc the app is out of date. What are my options?
Copy and paste the following AppleScript code into Script Editor (dock : launchpad : other : script editor).
set adobepkgs to paragraphs of (do shell script "pkgutil --pkgs | egrep -i Adobe")
set {TID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, return}
display dialog (items of adobepkgs) as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TID
return
Click the compile (hammer) button, and then run. This will find all of the installed Adobe package names and display them in a dialog for you. If one appears to suggest CS5, then select that item from the displayed dialog and copy to the clipboard.
If you found one or more CS5 related packages from above, hop into the Terminal and enter the following:
pkgutil --files $(pbpaste) > ~/Desktop/CS5files.txt
If it is a perfect world, you will have a text file on your Desktop that shows the full path of every installed CS5 file on your Mac, which you can carefully remove individually. Add to this, that there will likely be an Adobe folder in your
/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support folder that may have CS5 related content, and one or more preferences (.plist) files in /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences. Adobe may have even shoved content in the /Users/Adobe location too.