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  Old Adobe CS4 and CS5 Production Premium worth keeping?

  Posted by David Oulashian on March 26, 2021 at 11:20 pm

  Clearing out my closet and I found full versions of Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium, both v4 and v5 for Mac (not upgrades). I am a current Adobe CC Subscriber. Is there any reason I should hang on to these or should they go the way of my old Windows 95 install disk??

  Thanks!

  Jim Curtis replied 5 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jim Arco

  March 27, 2021 at 12:33 pm

  Disks don’t take up much space, so I keep my old install disks in a CD binder. Keep the activation numbers there, also.

  As an example, I recently built a new PC and was surprised to learn that the only way to reinstall Abode Encore was using Adobe’s install disk. If I hadn’t kept the original disks, I would have been re-authoring several older DVD/BluRay projects.

  (and BTW – I’m still irritated that Adobe abandoned those of us who still work on dozens of projects every year that involve “obsolete” technology like DVD and B-R! …then they made it very difficult to use software that we had already purchased.)
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  Jim Curtis

  March 27, 2021 at 3:10 pm

  It depends. You may have to keep an old computer around to use them. Some OS updates are incompatible with older versions of Adobe (and other) apps.

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