Is El Capitan compatible with Adobe CS5?

Reading all of this further confirms my continued rebellion to upgrade to ELC. I also have CS5 and everything runs great on Yosemite. I've heard a lot of horror stories which made me not want to upgrade since I too do not care to pay those monthly CC fees, which are outrageous and greedy IMHO. Thank you all for everything you've posted. This helps a lot. I surely hope Adobe comes up with a fix for CS5. I won't hold my breath...

Well, I'm in exactly the same boat. The functional benefits of ELC simply don't compare to losing access to CS5. It still think that installing Yosemite in a Parallels VM would work, but it's a ton of work which I don't have the stomach for right now. I'm excited to learn about the Affinity products... frankly, I don't use the Adobe Suite enough to be become a power user in any of them; they are wonderfully powerful apps, but stupidly non-intuitive to use. The key for me is the inDesign replacement. When that comes out, I'll give Affinity a serious look and will be happy to lose Adobe if it's as good as one would hope.

I know this is an older thread, but I wanted to post in case anybody googles this.

I just did a clean install of CS5 on El Cap (10.11.3), and everything seems to be working fine so far - including Illustrator (no crashes yet). Up until now, I had been booting into Lion to use CS5 (I refuse to use the cloud service, and Adobe has lost a 30+ year faithful customer). I've been using the Affinity products to replace Adobe since upgrading to El Cap... overall, not bad, but I can be MUCH more productive in Photoshop/Illustrator, having used both since v 1.0.

After installing, upon launch, I was prompted to install the legacy JRE. It took me right to the Apple page to download, and I downloaded and installed it without a hitch.

NOTE: The Adobe updater did not work for me, so I downloaded the updates manually from Adobe.

Photoshop 12.0.4

Illustrator 15.0.2

The Fireworks updater failed, but the installed version seems to work fine (surprisingly).

I have no use for Bridge, Device Central, or Extension Manager, so I don't care about those.

I seriously doubt that I'll ever upgrade to Sierra, so Apple has probly lost a 30+ year faithful customer as well. Sad.

I spoke slightly too soon. Illustrator ran fine for a few hours, no crashing or weird behavior. No problem saving files, etc. I did NOT experience the eyedropper bug. However, it DID crash on quit, and my precise cursors preference was not saved.

I followed the instructions on this page:

http://capitalmacservice.com/possible-fix-for-mac-adobe-illustrator-cs5-crash-on -exit/

... and everything is now fine. New prefs are saved properly, and no crashing on quit.

Are you using the latest version of Adobe Bridge:

Under ELC Photoshop CS5 worked for me too and I didn't noticed the acrobat trash problem.

Illustrator CS5 is the big problem and I've heard Indesign is also a problem but I don't use it so much.

You do not state which version of OS X you're currently using. Reinstalling that OS could fix your crashing problem.

Thank you pmiles, I will have to consider my options then.

Even CS3 works with El Capitan.

OS X 10.8.5

Really? Hmmm... interesting...

Thanks, very enlightening!

Yup, I learned that the hard way a long time ago. Have a WD back up drive and use SOS cloud service.

Yes, agree!

Wow, well that's really telling, huh? smh