will creative suite and Quark 6.5 still run?

no power pc based programs work in 10.7 or later.

Partition your hard drive and install Lion into the new partition. You can now "dual-boot" into Lion when you need to sync your iPad Mini or otherwise need Lion and reboot into Snow Leopard when you need to run your PowerPC apps.

shldr2thewheel wrote:

no power pc based programs work in 10.7 or later.

This is a great example of a response that is 100% accurate and yet 100% damaging to tell the OP...

Some times non-digital thinking needs to be applied to a situation. Hard for some computer mavens to attempt to do that...

Quark 6.5 may run okay in Lion, but it also contains a fair number of less used functions which are PPC code. Depending on how you use Quark 6.5, it may not be usable to you under Lion.

If your Creative Suite is the original CS, or CS2, then everything in it is PPC code and will not run in Lion.

Just to affirm Kurts post, I use CS3 on ML, if yours is CS2 or less then it won't.

CS2 "not" working:

[click on image to enlarge]

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/

So as not to confuse the OP or other users trying to learn from this topic, please be specific. CS2 does not work in Lion, as you well know. You show it running in a virtual machine under Snow Leopard Server.

It is a way of course to get CS2 running under Lion, but not directly.

That's a rather misleading post Michael.

are you sure? 🙂

[click on image to enlarge]

Ha! I see what you mean. My statement was a bit confusing itself. I'll try again. 🙂

You have CS2 running under SL Server within Parallels, and that running within Lion (say that 10 times real fast).

It counts on a technicality.

Csound1 wrote:

That's a rather misleading post Michael.

What's rather misleading about my post, Csound? ... or, as usual, are you just always quick to critize me or my posts or both?

It does not show CS2 running on Lion. It shows SL Server running in Parallels, running on Lion. It fails to mention the expenditure needed to get there (after the OP specifically mentioned financial issues). The OP has yet to identify the version of Creative Suite in use (although Quark 6.5 is not going to run regardless)

I will cheerfully admit that it will work, and may even be the cheapest solution, but the post is still misleading.

Let us review...

Csound1 said:

Just to affirm Kurts post, I use CS3 on ML, if yours is CS2 or less then it won't.

Once again, a statement that is 100 % correct in a vacuum, but 100% misleading to the OP.

The OP wants to know how to continue to run his PowerPC software after he upgrades his MacBook to Mountain Lion.

I gave the generally accepted workaround solution for his situation: partition your hard drive, install Mt. Lion in the one partition, with SL continuing in the other partition, dual-boot.

In case you did not notice, this thread has only one OP acknowledged "helpful" post; this last solution.

But, maybe because it was a slow day for you or otherwise, you opine that: "...if yours is CS2 or less then it won't [work in Mountain Lion]"

Your post adds NO new information in this thread and only gives the OP the impression that if he is perhaps considering the purchase of a new Mac THAT WILL ONLY RUN MOUNTAIN LION, he might as well throw his PowerPC applications in the waste basket!

Nothing could be farther from the truth, which is what I VISUALLY showed in response to YOUR incorrect post (which is why I put the word NOT in quotes)!

As for your rebuttal that: "It does not show CS2 running on Lion. It shows SL Server running in Parallels, running on Lion" it clearly tells the viewer to "click to enlarge" and they will CLEARLY see that CS2 is running in Snow Leopard Server running in Parallels!

Although I admit my subsequent post to Kurt obscures that fact with a smiley face to show Kurt it is a joke; which he clearly understood from his reply...

Financial issues are irrelevant, because my response was in reply to your incorrect post, not the OP!

But, again, it being a slow day for you or otherwise, you continue a long string of Ad Hominem attacks on me...

Take a pill Michael.

John the Greek wrote:

I bought my MacBook 2 years ago and migrated all my software. I'm a semi-retired graphic designer, so my apps include QuarkXpress 6.5 and Adobe Creative suite, an early version. The MacBook is running MacOs 10.6.8 and all the software, icluding Quark 6.5 runs fine, even though I'd heard that this older version of QXP woudn't work on the MacBook.

Incidentally, it was all migrated from a PowerPc processor Mac Mini, the first one on the market from back in 2003. It had been running 10.3.8 I think, but can't remember now.

The cost of updating QuarkXpress alone is now rather prohibitive for me, since my income is much less than it used to be. However, I have just bought an iPad Mini and find, annoyingly, that I can't sync my iCal or Contacts unless I upgrade the MacBook to 10.7. I am worried that if I do this my Quark 6.5 will then cease to work, or even worse, that my Adobe Creative suite will also malfunction. Since I have hundreds of archived files from the few clients that I still work for saved in QXP, this could be a huge problem if my fears are realised.

Anyone know if my worries are groundless, or whether they will prove real if I update the Os?

You cannot install Quark 6.5 or Adobe CS2 on a computer running Lion or Mountain Lion, as they are PPC Based programs. You can attempt various hacks to get it to run, but it will never run cleanly or efficiently like running Quark 8 or 9 or CS3 to CS6. Quark itself is rarely used anymore and it is actually much cheaper to just use the included InDesign program within CS as most Graphic Designers do these days. But that is your choice.

Cheers

Pete

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