Is El Capitan compatible with Adobe CS5?

don't expect news on a fix. Adobe dropped support for CS5 years ago and Apple will not fix other peoples problems. Those who got CS to work for their workflow seems to be the same people who did a clean install of CS5 or removed the components with Adobes cleanup tool, then did a clean install, then DL'ed the Apple Java for 2015, but there are exceptions to this rule. Either way CS is history-ware as far as Adobe is concerned and direct talks with them they refused to answer the questions when I asked them about compatibility with 10.11.

It works for some, maybe most but not all.

I might add that CS6 was the last stand-alone download available to Mac and PC users before Adobe forced everyone to go Cloud -- for a price of course -- or stop using their products. Adobe has not updated or provided any fixes for CS6 to make it more compatible with Apple's OSX upgrades but I have found Photoshop and Acrobat to be compatible with El Capitan barring a few glitches, one being an inability to empty the trash of certain PDFs created by Acrobat without a restart of the computer. I thought I had solved the problem by fiddling with Acrobat's permissions but it has reared its ugly head again and I have learned to live with it. If Apple comes up with its own PDF editor and improves Photos enough to be truly competitive with Photoshop I would gladly abandon Adobe forever.

have you looked into this? We mulled it for a time but we are so embedded with CS my only option is to keep CS and redeploy older systems that will run 10.9 until we either go to CC or change our entire workflow

http://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo

I'm not sure this is really a problem caused by adobe.

The only variable for me was the OS X upgrade. I wanted to use CS5 like before.

It would have been good if apple could have tested products for compatibility and if they found bugs either fix them or warn people.

Like hundreds/thousands of others, I've wasted days upgrading OS X, discovery the incompatibilities, trying to fix them and then downgrading to Yosemite again and copying back all the new work, e-mails, photos etc etc etc created while running El C for a few weeks.

It felt really sloppy & careless to me.

Apple have have said nothing on the subject despite receiving thousands of crash reports.

Holger Jensen wrote:

...improves Photos enough to be truly competitive with Photoshop I would gladly abandon Adobe forever.

I think Apple has already proven a disinterest in creating pro oriented photo apps

by the fact that they dropped Aperture. You may expect some improvements to Photos,

but more likely to support general consumer needs and desires. It's part of the ever

growing 95% trend of product development that Apple is adopting (not worth the effort

to worry about the 5%).

There are some promising alternatives to Adobe but most are not yet ready to fully compete

with the Adobe products. Perhaps when more people start moving to those alternatives

it will generate more revenue for them, allowing increasing development staff and moving

faster toward "one upping" Adobe products.

Apple has said they don't have to say anything, do anything or warn you. The section O in the 10.11 EULA states this clearly. If you have an issue with any product outside of Apple's development even if the developer swears up and down it's compatible with 10.11 Apple does not provide any assistance whatsoever and you should not expect them fix other developers problems under any circumstance.
If you use your mac without a backup and you upgrade and something stops working the fault is yours according to a binding document you agreed to, weather you read it or not is not the concern of Apple, you can not install the software without agreeing to it in total. If you have a TM backup you can restore your mac to a previous instance where the OS and the software functions as expected, if not you will need to format your HD to downgrade. If you don't have a backup of your computer in this day and age you are potentially putting yourself in a position where all your data and functionality could be irreversibly lost for an investment of less than $50 - $100 to prevent it.

OS X 10.8.5

O. Third Party Software. Apple has provided as part of the Apple Software package, and may provide as an upgrade, update or supplement to the Apple Software, access to certain third party software or services as a convenience.

How do you think that this is applicable? Apple never provided Adobe CS 5 as part of the Apple Software package.

JimmyCMPIT wrote:

....If you don't have a backup of your computer in this day and age you are potentially putting yourself in a position where all your data and functionality could be irreversibly lost for an investment of less than $50 - $100 to prevent it. .....

I totally agree. Anyone trusting their entire digital life to a single storage device

is an accident waiting to happen. An external HDD of $100 is pretty darn cheap

insurance. Warranted lifetime is usually 3 years, so $100/36 months is less than

$3 a month!!! Most of the time drives used in backup roles last much,much longer than

that.

Thank you, you have me wondering about Flash. I kept receiving reminders that the version I had was outdated. So I recently upgraded that application. But I think that is all. I will also run the disk utility. I recently ran an Etrecheck and posted it here.

Exactly, life was so much easier having control over your own software, that you owned, not having to lease it

on a monthly basis. And, yes, it's only $9.99/month right now but give it time, I'm sure Adobe will increase that

price after people have gotten adjusted to cloud software.

Robin8 wrote:

Exactly, life was so much easier having control over your own software, that you owned, not having to lease it

on a monthly basis. And, yes, it's only $9.99/month right now but give it time, I'm sure Adobe will increase that

price after people have gotten adjusted to cloud software.

Perhaps by that time some of the up and coming competitive apps may

be up to snuff and real alternatives. There are a few that are getting pretty

good (Affinity Photo comes to mind) but aren't quite there yet, although for

some may be good enough and will likely only get better.

Really? Hmmm... interesting...

Thanks, very enlightening!

I have to agree but I know PS so well now I hate to have to give it up only to have to learn a new image editing software.

Although, I may have to at some point. For now, I'm muddling through and can edit just fine using CS5.