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My MacBook is still running on OSX 10.5.8 because I was afraid if I upgraded to a newer OSX I’d lose my entire CS5 Adobe Suite ( I got all 20 programs installed 8 years ago for free & don’t have the money to pay for the online CC) Problem now is that pretty much all internet websites are not loading on MacBook Pro with the exception of google search. SO.. will upgrading to 10.6 erase my CS5 suite? And is upgrading even possible at this point? It seems I have to upgrade to Snow Leopard first no matter what. Then i’m not sure where to go from there, if I have to pay again for each OS or if the uogrades from there out are free AND if my computer and Adobe programs can even support the newer OS?? thank you!
Upgrading to El Capitan, that is if I remember correctly the latest OS your Mac can take natively, should not erase the programs you have on it. Not sure it can be upgraded in one go or another intermediate OS would be needed for the jump. However you can expect some problems might arise and as usual it would be a good practice to have an external backup at hand. An external drive and time machine should be all you need. The other issue you may expect, although I don’t know much about those Adobe programs, is that they may be no longer usable/compatible with an OS released years later. I believe you should be able to find detailed info on the developer site about that matter.
Can I buy a used retail install disc?? There’s a lot of people saying there’s no need to buy a new disc for snow leopard 10.6 since it was before Apple used serial numbers that prevented more than 1 install.
