Catalina workaround for Adobe CS6?

Just wondering if anyone has found another work-around to get Adobe CS6 running with Catalina? I'm using the "Terminal Method" which sort of works with a couple of limitations.


Go into Applications and click on Photoshop CS6, right click the Adobe Photoshop CS6.app, then Show Package Contents, click on Contents, then Mac OS, the double click the terminal icon/Adobe Photoshop CS6. A terminal window will open, and you'll get a couple of warning popups, canel those... then Photoshop will open. Its 100% functional with two exceptoions; you can't Save for Web, and you can't open a JPG image. I bought Affinity Photo, so if I need access to a JPG, I open it in Affinity, then Export it as a PSD file. Minor inconvenience, but now I can open the file in Photoshop. And... I can save the file as a JPG as long as I use the "Save As" selection.


I don't know if we should blame Apple or Adobe, but as many long-time Photoshop users in the Adobe forums have said, they feel cheated. The Adobe nuts say CS6 is six years old, but its also had numerous service upgrades, maybe a half dozen? So people have been buying and using this version for 6 years... so what? I can install Corel Draw 10 on a new PC and it works. CS6 is supposedly a 64-bit product, but Adobe seems to just want more money, and while I'm one of the retired guys that used Adobe PS at work since it was introduced... I think that when you buy a product you shouldn't be shut out unless you buy it again. Just my two cents.


My advice to everyone complaining... go buy Affinity Photo, especially when its on sale for $30 bucks and start migrating. Its gonna take some time, but 99% of what you want is there.

iMac 27" 5K, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jan 20, 2020 5:57 AM

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Posted on Jan 20, 2020 7:05 AM

Had to split my reply. Ran out of character space.


The last Mac OS CS6 officially supported by Adobe was Lion, 10.7. It shouldn't be any surprise that eight year old software doesn't run well, or at all in the latest OS. It doesn't even all run in Mojave. I installed the CS6 Master Collection in Mojave and After Effects doesn't work at all. Won't even launch.


Like any other software company, Adobe can't pay their bills or continue to exist without income. No software company is going to keep old titles running forever with free updates or upgrades, no matter what you paid for them.


Want to continue using CS6? Get VMware, Parallels, or the free VirtualBox and install an older Mac OS within that, such as Yosemite or El Capitan. Then install CS6 and run it from the VM.

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