Photoshop and GoLive upgrade on 10.5.6

[Brian Defferdin]

Hi,

I just recently bought a Mac Mini with OS X 10.5.6, after seven years of owning an EMac that I bought in 2002. On my EMac, I had Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and Adobe GoLive 6.0, which I used to create and manage my commercial website.

I tried to install Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and it would quit before it opened, saying there was an "unrecoverable error." I come to find out that Photoshop 7.0 does not work on OS X 10.5.6.

My question is:

-How would I upgrade to a newer Adobe Photoshop on my new Mac, seeing the older version won't even open?

Furthermore, since owning Adobe GoLive 6.0 years ago I moved around several times and woulnd up losing the disc along with the serial number. I transferred the program to my new Mac via an external hard drive but it's asking for the serial number, which I unfortunately don't have.

-Is there a way I can legally get a new serial number for this?

-And if so, will it work on OS X 10.5.6?
-If not, how would I upgrade to a newer version?

I'm aware that Adobe stopped selling Adobe GoLive 9.0 and is incorporating it to Dreamweaver, however I still need to manage my commercial website in the meantime.

Thank you in advance for your time!

-Brian Defferding
Deftoons Comics
www.deftoons.com
deftoons@deftoons.com

 

[jcooke]

Seeing that GoLive is now a dead program, most likely Adobe would no longer offer support. I'm not saying they won't, but it seems slim. In the past however, I was able to prove ownership and they did provide a new serial.

If the program runs in a version of OS X about 10.3.9 or higher, most likely it will be able to run in newer systems. I even have CS 2 running on a 10.5.6 machine, though I am not sure what version of GoLive that carries.

I am not sure what the limits are on the trials, but I am pretty sure you can download a trial and use that for about thirty days.

You would just have to buy some version of CS 4 to upgrade. If you have an Intel machine, then it runs blazingly fast.

 

[fryke]

If you need a "right now" type of solution, you'll need to buy the full version of Adobe CS4 (probably web standard or web premium), because upgrade pricing is not available for your versions AFAIK. You'll use Photoshop CS4 and Dreamweaver CS4. Dreamweaver will be a big disappointment at first, of course, because it works quite differently from GoLive.