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Thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities. If I understand your question, you'd like to know whether the Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection will work in macOS 10.13 High Sierra. I'm happy to help you get some information on that!
Have a lovely day.Article ID = 115
Article Title = Virtualising Adobe Creative Suite with Mac OS X / OS X / macOS
Article Author(s) = Graham Needham (BH)
Article Created On = 27th February 2019
Article Last Updated = 13th March 2019
Article URL = https://www.macstrategy.com/article.php?115
Article Brief Description:
Instructions for virtualising Adobe Creative Suite with Mac OS X / OS X / macOS
CS4 - Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are 64-bit*, all other primary apps including InDesign are 32-bit
CS5 - Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are 64-bit*, all other primary apps including InDesign are 32-bit
CS5.5 - Bridge, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are 64-bit*, all other primary apps including InDesign are 32-bit
CS6.0 - Bridge, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are 64-bit*, all other primary apps including InDesign are 32-bit
* But see this blog post.
Thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities. If I understand your question, you'd like to know whether the Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection will work in macOS 10.13 High Sierra. I'm happy to help you get some information on that!
Creative Suite applications are not supported on macOS 10.12 (Sierra), macOS 10.13 (High Sierra), and macOS 10.14 (Mojave). Therefore, many of the Creative Suite installers may not function normally on them. See the information below for available workarounds to install Creative Suite applications under macOS 10.12- 10.14. Remove Adobe Creative Suite 3 preferences on Mac OS. Creative Suite User Guide Select. Default preference files for Adobe Creative Suite 3 products are created on installation or launch. The information in this document covers all of the products in the Adobe Creative Suite 3: Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Web.
Adobe indicates in their support article Installing Creative Suite on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) that: Creative Suite applications are not supported on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and therefore, many of the Creative Suite installers may not function normally on macOS 10.12. Since macOS 10.13 High Sierra was released after macOS 10.12 Sierra, it seems as though the same information would apply to High Sierra. However, to be certain I would recommend getting in touch with Adobe. You can check out the system requirements for their Master Collection here: System requirements | Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection
Adobe Creative Suite Apple Pro
, and reach out to them directly here: Contact Adobe Customer Care.Have a lovely day.Article ID = 115
Article Title = Virtualising Adobe Creative Suite with Mac OS X / OS X / macOS
Article Author(s) = Graham Needham (BH)
Article Created On = 27th February 2019
Article Last Updated = 13th March 2019
Article URL = https://www.macstrategy.com/article.php?115
Article Brief Description:
Instructions for virtualising Adobe Creative Suite with Mac OS X / OS X / macOS
Virtualising Adobe Creative Suite with Mac OS X / OS X / macOS
The ability to virtualise Adobe Creative Suite is important and very useful as it is an easy way to run these older 32-bit applications that do not run on macOS 10.15 or later. MacStrategy presents this special guide to running Adobe Creative Suite within a virtualised Mac OS X / OS X / macOS environment.Virtualisation Software
- Parallels Desktop [£79.99 inc VAT - 14 day free trial available]
- VMWare Fusion [£70.00 inc VAT - 30 day free trial available]
- Oracle VirtualBox [FREE - Open source under GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2]
Virtualise Mac OS X / OS X / macOS
You can consider virtualising:However, we recommend running the following versions of macOS / OS X / Mac OS X as Virtual Machines for 32-bit app support:- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Server) - costs money but you may already be running/want to run this to be able to use PowerPC/Rosetta based applications
OS X 10.7- OS X 10.8 is better- OS X 10.8 - costs money but if you already own it/want to pay for it, it runs very efficiently in a virtual machine and there are few internet/iCloud based services clogging it up
OS X 10.9- was very kludgy and slow when installed on a hard diskOS X 10.10- was slow when installed on a hard disk, does not support latest Apple internet/iCloud based services- OS X 10.11 - free, supports most internet/iCloud based services
- macOS 10.12 - free, supports most internet/iCloud based services
macOS 10.13- buggy, slow, still being revised by Apple, 10.13.4 or later will give you repeated warnings when trying to run 32-bit applications- macOS 10.14 - but will give you repeated warnings when trying to run 32-bit applications
- Mac mini (2014 model) with macOS 10.14 Mojave running in 64-bit only test mode and using Parallels Desktop 14.1.2, VMWare Fusion 11.0.2 and VirtualBox 6.0.4 with OS X 10.8.5
Adobe Creative Suite 32-bit vs 64-bit
CS3 - all primary CS3 apps are 32-bit.CS4 - Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are 64-bit*, all other primary apps including InDesign are 32-bit
CS5 - Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are 64-bit*, all other primary apps including InDesign are 32-bit
CS5.5 - Bridge, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are 64-bit*, all other primary apps including InDesign are 32-bit
CS6.0 - Bridge, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are 64-bit*, all other primary apps including InDesign are 32-bit
* But see this blog post.
Adobe Creative Suite
You can consider virtualising:- Adobe Creative Suite CS
- Adobe Creative Suite CS2
- The online licensing servers for Adobe Creative Suite CS2/CS3 are no longer active. You will need a special version of the installer to install the software:
- Adobe Creative Suite CS3 (Adobe ID required to obtain the download/new serial number)
- Adobe Creative Suite CS6 requires online activation and login with an Adobe ID
- We do not recommend running the Adobe Acrobat Pro software that came with Creative Suite as all those old versions are no longer supported with security updates. If you must run Acrobat Proconsider installing a newer, supported version of Adobe Reader and setting PDF documents to automatically open it - see our Keeping Adobe Software ProductsUp-To-Date about this.
Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Notes
- The online licensing server for Adobe Creative Suite CS3 is no longer active - You will need a special version of the installer to install the software (Adobe ID required to obtain the download/new serial number)
- Installing CS3 on macOS 10.12 Sierra or later may require a manual workaround to get it installed
- Some Adobe CS3 applications erroneously report that they need Java to run - you can install Java 6 or trick OS X into thinking Java is installed
- Adobe CS3 updates cannot be installed automatically/easily - updates must be installed manually
Adobe Creative Suite CS4 Notes
- Installing CS4 on macOS 10.12 Sierra or later may require a manual workaround to get it installed
- Some Adobe CS4 applications erroneously report that they need Java to run - you can install Java 6 or trick OS X into thinking Java is installed
- Adobe CS4 updates can be installed automatically/easily on earlier versions of OS X but you may need to set your clock back - you will need to temporarily turn off the virtual machineclock synchronisation with the primary system:
- Parallels Desktop = shutdown the virtual machine to change this setting, then > go to Window menu > Control Center > click on the cog icon for the OS X 10.8 virtual machine >Options tab > More Options (on the left) > select 'Do not sync' from the 'Time:' pop-up menu
- VMware Fusion = shutdown the virtual machine to change this setting, then > go to Virtual Machine menu > Settings > Advanced > untick 'Synchronize time'
- Some Adobe CS4 updates may not install automatically/easily on later versions of OS X / macOS - this is due to Adobe's proprietary installer software that is not compatible with later versions of OS X / macOS. To workaround this you will need to download the update manually and install via the manual method documented by Adobe:
- Adobe proprietary installer manual installation method - although the articlerefers to the full installer ofthe suite, you canstill use this method with manually downloaded updates, by opening the update disk image, locating the installer/setup app > control/right-clicking it and selecting Open PackageContents from the contextual menu > go to Contents > MacOS > and double-click on the Unix executable installer
Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Notes
Adobe Creative Cloud Login Page
- Installing CS5 on macOS 10.12 Sierra or later may require a manual workaround to get it installed
- When installing CS5 on some later versions of OS X / macOS you may get the message 'Please close all of the following applications to continue: • SafariPlugInUpda' - to do this, leave the installerrunning, go to Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor > CPU tab > click on 'Process Name' heading to sort the process list alphabetically > locate 'SafariPlugInUpdateNotifier' inthe list > select it > click the X button in the top left > click the 'Force Quit' button > go back to the Adobe installer > click 'Continue'
- When installing CS5 on some later versions of OS X / macOS you may get the message 'Please close all of the following applications to continue: • SafariBookmarkS' - to do this, leave the installerrunning, go to Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor > CPU tab > click on 'Process Name' heading to sort the process list alphabetically > locate 'SafariBookmarkSyncAgent' inthe list > select it > click the X button in the top left > click the 'Force Quit' button > go back to the Adobe installer > click 'Continue'
- Some Adobe CS5 applications erroneously report that they need Java to run - you can install Java 6 or trick OS X into thinking Java is installed
- Adobe CS5 updates can be installed automatically/easily on earlier versions of OS X but you may need to set your clock back - you will need to temporarily turn off the virtual machineclock synchronisation with the primary system:
- Parallels Desktop = shutdown the virtual machine to change this setting, then > go to Window menu > Control Center > click on the cog icon for the OS X 10.8 virtual machine >Options tab > More Options (on the left) > select 'Do not sync' from the 'Time:' pop-up menu
- VMware Fusion = shutdown the virtual machine to change this setting, then > go to Virtual Machine menu > Settings > Advanced > untick 'Synchronize time'
- Some Adobe CS5 updates may not install automatically/easily on later versions of OS X / macOS - this is due to Adobe's proprietary installer software that is not compatible with later versions of OS X / macOS. To workaround this you will need to download the update manually and install via the manual method documented by Adobe:
- Adobe proprietary installer manual installation method - although the articlerefers to the full installer ofthe suite, you can still use this method with manually downloaded updates, by opening the update disk image, locating the installer/setup app > control/right-clicking it and selecting Open PackageContents from the contextual menu > go to Contents > MacOS > and double-click on the Unix executable installer
Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Notes
- Installing CS5.5 on macOS 10.12 Sierra or later may require a manual workaround to get it installed
- When installing CS5.5 on some later versions of OS X / macOS you may get the message 'Please close all of the following applications to continue: • SafariPlugInUpda' - to do this, leave the installerrunning, go to Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor > CPU tab > click on 'Process Name' heading to sort the process list alphabetically > locate 'SafariPlugInUpdateNotifier' inthe list > select it > click the X button in the top left > click the 'Force Quit' button > go back to the Adobe installer > click 'Continue'
- When installing CS5.5 on some later versions of OS X / macOS you may get the message 'Please close all of the following applications to continue: • SafariBookmarkS' - to do this, leave the installerrunning, go to Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor > CPU tab > click on 'Process Name' heading to sort the process list alphabetically > locate 'SafariBookmarkSyncAgent' inthe list > select it > click the X button in the top left > click the 'Force Quit' button > go back to the Adobe installer > click 'Continue'
- Some Adobe CS5.5 applications erroneously report that they need Java to run - you can install Java 6 or trick OS X into thinking Java is installed
- Some Adobe CS5.5 updates may not install automatically/easily on later versions of OS X / macOS - this is due to Adobe's proprietary installer software that is not compatible with later versions of OS X / macOS. To workaround this you will need to download the update manually and install via the manual method documented by Adobe:
- Adobe proprietary installer manual installation method - although the articlerefers to the full installer ofthe suite, you can still use this method with manually downloaded updates, by opening the update disk image, locating the installer/setup app > control/right-clicking it and selecting Open PackageContents from the contextual menu > go to Contents > MacOS > and double-click on the Unix executable installer
Adobe Creative Suite CS6 Notes
- Installing CS6 on macOS 10.12 Sierra or later may require a manual workaround to get it installed
- When installing CS6 on some later versions of OS X / macOS you may get the message 'Please close all of the following applications to continue: • SafariPlugInUpda' - to do this, leave the installerrunning, go to Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor > CPU tab > click on 'Process Name' heading to sort the process list alphabetically > locate 'SafariPlugInUpdateNotifier' inthe list > select it > click the X button in the top left > click the 'Force Quit' button > go back to the Adobe installer > click 'Continue'
- When installing CS6 on some later versions of OS X / macOS you may get the message 'Please close all of the following applications to continue: • SafariBookmarkS' - to do this, leave the installerrunning, go to Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor > CPU tab > click on 'Process Name' heading to sort the process list alphabetically > locate 'SafariBookmarkSyncAgent' inthe list > select it > click the X button in the top left > click the 'Force Quit' button > go back to the Adobe installer > click 'Continue'
- Some Adobe CS6 applications erroneously report that they need Java to run - you can install Java 6 or trick OS X into thinking Java is installed
- Some Adobe CS6 updates may not install automatically/easily on later versions of OS X / macOS - this is due to Adobe's proprietary installer software that is not compatible with later versions of OS X / macOS. To workaround this you will need to download the update manually and install via the manual method documented by Adobe:
- Adobe proprietary installer manual installation method - although the articlerefers to the full installer ofthe suite, you can still use this method with manually downloaded updates, by opening the update disk image, locating the installer/setup app > control/right-clicking it and selecting Open PackageContents from the contextual menu > go to Contents > MacOS > and double-click on the Unix executable installer
- If the automatic updates stall at 'Adobe Flash Pro CS6 update 2' check whether the Adobe Extension Manager application has launched - if it has, click on it and manually quit it to allow the update process to continue
Adobe Creative Suite Apple Cloud
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