the icons are cancelled out:
Also changed, and highly irritating, is most of the images saved on my desktop no longer show a preview. It seems random. I tried the fix someone had posted for another IOS program, but it did not work for me. Thank you.
P.S. If I am unable to access Adobe CS5 products anymore can someone recommend another [compatible] system to install?
Adobe CS5 was released 11 years ago and Adobe stopped supporting it in 2017. Neither CS5 nor CS6 will work on Monterey. If you wish to use the Adobe Suite, you need to upgrade to Adobe Creative Cloud. (adobe.com).
Try installing Mojave this way: How to create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support (IN)
Be sure to have a full and current backup or clone of your boot drive before attempting.
To reiterate Old Toad's note. Make absolutely sure to first create a backup of your drive before doing anything else.
You're getting that message because you're trying to install an older OS over the current one. You can't do that. You have to erase the drive, then install the older OS on the blank volume. Which is why you need a bootable installer of that older OS.
Downgrading to El Capitan should work using the same steps Here's the install file for El Capitan: http://updates-http.cdn-apple.com/2019/cert/061-41424-20191024-218af9ec-cf50-4516-9011-228c78eda3d2/InstallMacOSX.dmg. Came from here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683 (scroll down for Sierra, High Sierra, etc).
Once you're able to downgrade to EC and restore your system from your time machine backup, you can try upgrading to High Sierra (or not) through the Software Update in System Preferences. Then test your Adobe software. If all is good, you can then follow the instructions I shared to copy your system to a bootable SSD. From there test booting from the SSD (hold down the option key when powering up) and then try running your Adobe software. If your CS 5 suite works, then you can safely upgrade your main iMac OS to Monterey.
I must admit, my old MacBook Pro 2015 Retina runs a lot faster using Monterey and some of the UI features and integrations with our other Mac products (iPhones, Airpods, iPads, Apple TV, etc) are seamless and snappy. Good luck!
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Yes, Mojave. My wife is stuck there since she likes iPhoto.
Have you contacted Apple support? They might be able to guide you through reinstall from Time Machine Backup.
Dear All,
I am aware that this is (in your mind) an antiquated software. I paid a lot of money for this and I know HOW to use this version. Forcing me to “move to the cloud” is no bueno. I can’t even move this software to another computer as they made that process a nightmare!
Keith, thank you for this. Unfortunately I am no computer guru, and that would entail a lot of self-education to learn how to do that as well as how to utilize it once I did. But thank you again, would be helpful advice if I were smarter. ;) LOL
Not snarky remarks, just plain facts.
FWIW, I am retired and on a fixed income and need to budget between home repair maintenance, taxes, utilities, food, car, and biggie is health insurance and prescriptions (Medicare doesn't pay everything). So my tech budget is pretty limited. Did manage a new M1 MacBook Air last year and will be paying for it for the next couple years. I do have three other Macs ranging from 11 to 8 years old. So I'm not buying something new every year!
OMG! Appleaday8. IF I had the technical ability to accomplish this I would do it, but unfortunately I do not. :(
Yesterday I tried to turn my OS back to El Capitan from my Time Machine backup and all that happened was that it RE-INSTALLED Monteray! It's a mess. It was just like setting up a new computer from scratch with all those passwords that needed to be re-entered. I will never understand the backend of a computer unfortunately.
I realize this reply was back in December Old Toad, but I just couldn't deal with it over the holidays. I did make a Time Machine backup, but like I just said to Appleaday8, when I went to reinstall El Capitan from my backup for some reason all that happened was that it reinstalled Monterey again.
I had my Seagate external drive plugged in to my PC. When I went to run the install it asked me which backup I wanted to use (my old pc is backed up on the same external drive) I selected the correct folder to be uploaded and after an hour it said I had "successfully installed Monterey! I have no idea how that could have even been possible. :(
I attempted to dial my iMac backwards to Mojave from Monterey, but after 30 minutes I got a message that said it was too old and the download would not proceed. How can it be too old when what came installed on it was El Capitan and it's even older than Mojave??? I'd really like to stop bothering you folks. Does anyone have an answer for me? Thank you. Robin
Kurt, I mostly understood this, except the part when you say, "Then boot to the USB drive with the older OS you want to install." I guess I could search for YouTube videos that go through this step-by-step.
Thank you for trying to help me. Robin
Now I know why the Apple Store wants $250 to do this. 🤣😂🤣
So why does this line (from the directions above) seem to say it is installing "Big\ Sur.app/....?" Or is that not really referring to Big Sur OS?
This is quiet terrifying for a novice. As much as I dislike Windows the one good thing they had was "restore points," where you could just turn everything backward to a previous date, i.e. BEFORE one stupidly updated to something that made their programs obsolete.
Oops! Copied the wrong line. This one:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume
Change to:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/a
Appleaday8, thank you for the video link. I will look at it when I am fresh (in the morning, in hopes that I don't screw everything up!) Just FYI, my original OS was El Capitan...which is ~ I KNOW~ old, that's why I'm not going all the way back to it. 😜
Once again, thanks all for your help. Wish me luck. 🤞🏼
Upgraded to Monterey and now cannot access Adobe Creative Suites CS5...
