I'm in the same boat with my 2015 macbook pro 13'. I mainly use that for the video stuff I occasionally do.

I can still use my CS6 Master Collection I have installed on a Mojave partition if I want to on a 2018 Mac Mini. I have no use for Lightroom, but wanted to keep Photoshop CC because it has features I use a lot that don't exist in CS6. It's only $10 per month that way instead of $53. I knocked the Creative Cloud suite down to the Photography version only of Photoshop and Lightroom. Only Inkscape and VivaDesigner are free, but at least the others are perpetual license products. It's the only one I found that can both read and write InDesign files. Replaced by the free version of VivaDesigner. The free and excellent eM Client replaces Outlook. That gives you near equivalent versions of Word, PowerPoint and Excel. If you download the free version, it has a link within it to purchase the full version suite for only $30.

I've been replacing everything I normally used with free, or much cheaper alternatives. The wife and I are also close to retiring. The apps, despite the very expensive upgrades, cost far less than what they earned me by having them. It was just part of the cost of doing so.

I used these apps for a small, in-home business. That is just the way things are.Īs noted by woodmeister50, not snarky at all. Whether you like it or not, technology will continue to move on and new apps will be developed to replace the old and vendors will eventually end support for old apps.

Start a Creative Cloud subscription which will always keep apps up to date.Īfter 11 years, you certainly have got your use out of the original purchase.

Revert to an OS that the apps did work with (and make sure you have a supply of old computers when your current one finally dies).

In addition, it is absurd to think that Apple (or Microsoft for that matter) should be concerned that obsolete software doesn't work on an OS. So, for one, it is the app vendors responsibility to insure compatibility with an OS, which Adobe has done with their Creative Cloud suite. Not just in our minds but in Adobe's as well since they dropped all support and obsoleted it 4 years ago! I am aware that this is (in your mind) an antiquated software.

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