I upgraded to Mountain Lion and now I can't use any of my software!

Go to System Preferences>Security and set the Gatekeeper settings to allow downloads from anywhere. Then run updates for your software. If you have Microsoft Office 2004 it won't work with Mountain Lion. If you have Microsoft Office 2008 or 2010(or 2011 I can't remember what it is now) then you just have to run updates for it to work.

Your main problem will be AutoCad, it is not yet compatibe with Mountain Lion but a service pack is being prepared, see this:

Here is a link to the full document.

Adobe have compatible versions available, go to www.adobe.com for info.

lunaulu wrote:

It's not my Microsoft that I use much or am worried about. I can't run AutoCAD. and I can't update AutoCAD either. When I try to mount an update just to get it working, it says it can't run the DMG file. Apparantly this new platform doesn't use Rosetta - which is needed to run any of these updates or downloads. ***? and then When I try to open CS4 appliations - Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign - I get the message "Licensing for this product has stopped working - Error 150:30 - ***?

So basically I can't use ANY of the programs I ran before. And yes I have googled desperately all day. Adobe has some suggestions - like deleting a Flex files - which I did...Defragmenting - which I did. And most importantly provides am Adobe Licensing Repair tool to fix - which I can't open because Mountain Lion won't mount the DMG in order to run it! It's a complete disaster and I don't have the money or time to purchase and or reinstall everything. I am just screwed. 😢

No you are not, calm down, cbs20 already gave you the answer on opening dmg files, updates are available for most of your programs and I assume you have licenses for the Adobe products. AutoCad you'll have to wait for.

And please .... Start Backing Things Up, you could lose it all without one, work included.

You're welcome 🙂

PS: CS4 will work on Mountain Lion, get it up to date, and licensed.

As you apparently just discovered, it is generally (Always) unwise to Upgrade to a new version of OS without First making a "backup" copy of the old OS installation on an external hard drive. For just this reason.

Hope this helps 🙂

As you've discovered, Rosetta has been discontinued (it was removed from Lion - 10.7 - as well). Therefore, all software must be Intel native to run on OSX 10.7 and later.

This would be a software developer/update issue. Screaming at Apple about it will accomplish nothing.

As for reverting back to SL, if you didn't back up prior to upgrading to ML, yes, you will need to reinstall and update your software from scratch. Hopefully, you have your project files and such stored in an alternate location (I have both a flash drive and Dropbox for such things).

On a related note, if you are still using CS4, it's probably time to think about upgrading. CS6 was released earlier this year, and it is already ML ready.

lunaulu wrote:

none of this helps really. but I definitey appreciate everyone's response!

I have files stored on Dropbox and thumb drives. I am not keeping Mountain Lion. And it's going to be a very long weekend..

The issue will be that many of your files will have been upgraded for the new OS, downgrading won't work so you will need a backup of how they were before you upgraded, pease choose carefully what it is you're going to do.

I'm having the same problem. Can you explain how to update CS4 and license again? I've been using ML for several months and CS4 was working fine then I opened InDesign last night and got the Error 150:30 "Licensing has stopped working". HELP!!

shsubrkat wrote:

I'm having the same problem. Can you explain how to update CS4 and license again? I've been using ML for several months and CS4 was working fine then I opened InDesign last night and got the Error 150:30 "Licensing has stopped working". HELP!!

Contact Adobe customer support.

Did that, but Office 2008 still won't open, and it seems to have to be open for it to manually or auto update. No place on the MS site to download an update. Any suggestions would be helpful.