I have recently installed iOS Sonoma and all appears to working normally, thankfully. I have waited a long time to update from Mojave as I have been running Adobe CS6. Mojave is the last OS that is compatible with CS6 before done changed to subscription only. I have uninstalled my CS6 from my intel iMac 2019 and now want to pass my CS6 discs onto someone else, but need to make sure the licences are deactivated before doing that. I have contacted Adobe and they have not been very helpful thus far. From what I understand from them, I have to reinstall iOS Mojave, reinstall the CS6 discs, then Deactivate the licences, then uninstall CS6 again, then reinstall iOS Sonoma. Even if that is possible it seems a pretty ludicrous thing to have to do. Does anyone know if this is the case? If I did do that what would be the effect on all the data on the iMac. Would I have to go back to Time Machine? This all seems really complicated!!
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If it's true you need to install CS6 to Mojave, I think you could make the process slightly less painful by leaving your current Sonoma setup as-is, and instead installing Mojave to either an external drive (HDD or SSD), or to a newly-created volume on your internal drive.
Once you have Mojave installed, you can choose to boot to Sonoma or Mojave by holding the Option key while booting, or by setting the desired boot volume in System Preferences (or System Settings) "Startup Disk". Then install CS6 to Mojave and do your thing. When done, you can just Erase the external volume that had Mojave. (Obviously you need to be sure to pick the correct volume.) If you used the internal drive for Mojave, you would use Disk Utility to delete that volume from the container.
(When using Disk Utility to work with containers, I always recommend turning on "Show All Devices" in the View menu. In my opinion it makes the structure easier to understand.)
If you're a novice, it might be somewhat "safer" (less error-prone) to install Mojave to an extra external drive, keeping Mojave and your Sonoma boot disks completely separate.
Once you have Mojave installed, you can choose to boot to Sonoma or Mojave by holding the Option key while booting, or by setting the desired boot volume in System Preferences (or System Settings) "Startup Disk". Then install CS6 to Mojave and do your thing. When done, you can just Erase the external volume that had Mojave. (Obviously you need to be sure to pick the correct volume.) If you used the internal drive for Mojave, you would use Disk Utility to delete that volume from the container.
(When using Disk Utility to work with containers, I always recommend turning on "Show All Devices" in the View menu. In my opinion it makes the structure easier to understand.)
If you're a novice, it might be somewhat "safer" (less error-prone) to install Mojave to an extra external drive, keeping Mojave and your Sonoma boot disks completely separate.
Odd that you can’t go to your account online and deactivate the license there - I can with my Adobe products.
Thankyou for your suggestion Brian. That makes useful reading as I didn't know this was possible. I have been doing a bit reading about creating a new volume where I could install Mojave and then reinstall my CS6. I shall get back to you when I know and understand more.
I don't know how old you adobe products are, but I have been onto my Adobe account and can find no evidence of any licences. The visual assistant is useless so contacting Adobe will have to be the next step.
Well I started about about 17 years ago - I just go to my Adobe account and they are there.