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You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by garren »

monkin wrote: post #51
walrus01 wrote: post #28

Alexa, show me how to drive a significant portion of your customer base towards unashamed piracy.

Significant portion of what kind of users exactly? Professionals upgrade their software and I could bet that 13 years old software is nowhere near of being significant. It’s the same kind of stupidity like shouting that Microsoft EOLed XP. ;-)

I’m no designer, but my previous workflows relied quite a bit on core functionality found in versions of CS going back to at least CS3. I’ve used CS3, CS4, CS6, and more recently CC. I only used CC because CS6 no longer worked on macOS, and I only used CS6 because I couldn’t get a legit older version (also student discount).

I found it to be a treadmill - the prices went up until Adobe decided that you could no longer purchase anything outright and now had to rent it. Newer versions looked prettier, but the performance and stability dropped.

I’d reckon that the vast majority of people using CC would be happy with an older version and just as productive. CC6 and later are resource hogs that are constantly calling home. Today, I’d be hard pressed to choose CC over a pirated copy or other alternative, and I’ve known a few designers that stuck with cracked copies of CS.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by aaron695 »

potency wrote: post #128

> The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired. Oh come on. Surely a company with the resources of Adobe can figure out a way to keep an activation server running. In fact I'll bet you could find one competent sysadmin to keep it running indefinitely. I hate when companies spew out obvious utter B.S. like this.

What would you think it would cost per year? What $ amount?

What would be the break down?

Legacy software, security and the constant upgrades, a manager, HR, customer support. Training your all your call centres to know about it and who to re-direct issues to.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by rangibaby »

dylan604 wrote: post #129
tapland wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see people running OSX Lion to run newer CS versions than CS3 because they can’t be installed on operating systems that have gotten security updates in the last five years. =\

What version of OSX was Lion? Snow Leopard 10.6 was the last one for the original cheese graters, and I know plenty of people running those and Final Cut 7 systems. It ain't broke, so they ain't fixin'. It's older SD tape based work flows that just ingest content from tape all day long, and then places it on the SAN for others workflows.

Mac Pro 1,1 was officially supported to Lion, it can run up to and including El Capitan if you use a patched installer .

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by johncalvinyoung »

Makes me sad. CS3 Production Premium Collection was my first, long-desired Creative Suite product, bought in high school with my summer's earnings to support my burgeoning filmmaking projects. Cut a bigger film that next winter using Premiere & After Effects and won some smalltime awards. Good times, so long ago.

I have Creative Cloud now, and have had for years, but still, that little bit of my history is now just memories. I still have my CS6 environment, so they'd better not kill those activation servers anytime soon!

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by jeffbee »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #166

https://www.gimp.org https://krita.org/en If you donate anything near what you would have paid for Adobe, then these projects will be awash in resources.

That's a really interesting assertion. I have a feeling you could throw arbitrary amount of money at GIMP and it will still be almost useless.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by rangibaby »

firefoxd wrote: post #100

It's 2020, the ipad is 10 years old. It was a revolutionary product. Some people stood in line for hours to be the first to own it. Well that reminds me, i do own one! Get it out of the closet and ah, the battery is depleted. Who expects it to hold charge after... 8 years? I don't have a cable either. I have lightning though, even usb-c. But nope, it's the old 30 pin charger. Order it online. Still works! Except, I h…

I remember the OG iPad had a pathetic amount of RAM, so that might be your issue;

I use my iPad3 (2012) for Netflix and light browsing and it works great. The battery even holds plenty of charge.

The App Store and Apple Music work fine.

The YouTube app stopped working because the app demands an update that Google didn’t make available for that generation of iPad. Watching YT via Safari still works.

My only complaint is that adblockers don’t work because that generation of iPad doesn’t have a 64bit CPU.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by cableshaft »

firefoxd wrote: post #100

It's 2020, the ipad is 10 years old. It was a revolutionary product. Some people stood in line for hours to be the first to own it. Well that reminds me, i do own one! Get it out of the closet and ah, the battery is depleted. Who expects it to hold charge after... 8 years? I don't have a cable either. I have lightning though, even usb-c. But nope, it's the old 30 pin charger. Order it online. Still works! Except, I h…

I still have my original iPad Mini. It's the only device that has installed and can play the games I made when I worked for an app company back in 2011-2012 that went out of business. Once it dies I'll be a sad panda :(.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by Cullinet »

Lammy wrote: post #49

There are special no-activation-required versions of the entire CS2 and CS3 product line! Adobe killed the product activation servers for CS2 products in 2013, and for CS3 products in 2017. For CS2, they offered Activation-free replacement installers and generic serial numbers on their support page. This resulted in a bunch of press[0] about it being a /!\ omg completely free Creative Suite /!\, so for CS3's 2017 shu…

Oh dear, thank you so very much genuinely for your excellent history. Unfortunately I think this is going to leave me with the loss, since I last backed up my design workstation to tape conveniently the just far enough distant past and (dealing with long-term injury that I am only recently overcome sufficiently for picking up my WACOM pen again) only the last month or so have been planning on restoring.

Completely seriously, isn't Adobe missing out on a significant community of graying designers who would be entirely contented to pay Adobe quintennially for a long term support version with standard menus and hardened fuzzed etc security wash before rtm?

Priced at say 60 percent of the current subscription, and given the opportunity for satisfying this constituency of customers who I am not sure at all would be Adobe customers in the future otherwise, isn't even such a radical branch viable?

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