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Launching Photoshop CS6 on Catalina (success)

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kolax

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Photoshop CS6 with apparently latest updates (13.0.6) refused to launch for me - circle with a line through it icon.

So I had a poke in the package contents for Photoshop CS6.app and I was able to successfully launch it from the unix file and start doing things. Not tested extensively yet, but so far so good without a crash.


Two ways to launch it:

1. Right-click on 'Photoshop CS6.app' then click 'Show Package Contents'
2. Navigate via Contents -> MacOS
3. Open the unix file 'Adobe Photoshop CS6'

Or if you run this from a terminal:

/Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6 ; exit;



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kolax said:
Photoshop CS6 with apparently latest updates (13.0.6) refused to launch for me - circle with a line through it icon.

So I had a poke in the package contents for Photoshop CS6.app and I was able to successfully launch it from the unix file and start doing things. Not tested extensively yet, but so far so good without a crash.


Two ways to launch it:

1. Right-click on 'Photoshop CS6.app' then click 'Show Package Contents'
2. Navigate via Contents -> MacOS
3. Open the unix file 'Adobe Photoshop CS6'

Or if you run this from a terminal:

/Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6 ; exit;



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is There any easy way to launch it by setting up a shortcut for the dock?
 
kolax said:
You could just drag the unix file onto the dock's folder/file shortcut bit on the right.



Probably, I don't have Illustrator to try but the app is 64-bit like Photoshop.
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Will the icon be that of the Photoshop app or a Unix file icon if I drag it into the dock?
 
kolax said:
Photoshop CS6 with apparently latest updates (13.0.6) refused to launch for me - circle with a line through it icon.

So I had a poke in the package contents for Photoshop CS6.app and I was able to successfully launch it from the unix file and start doing things. Not tested extensively yet, but so far so good without a crash.


Two ways to launch it:

1. Right-click on 'Photoshop CS6.app' then click 'Show Package Contents'
2. Navigate via Contents -> MacOS
3. Open the unix file 'Adobe Photoshop CS6'

Or if you run this from a terminal:

/Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6 ; exit;



.
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I went through the steps you suggested and it crashed immediately when it started to launch. 🙁
 
kolax said:
Photoshop CS6 with apparently latest updates (13.0.6) refused to launch for me - circle with a line through it icon.

So I had a poke in the package contents for Photoshop CS6.app and I was able to successfully launch it from the unix file and start doing things. Not tested extensively yet, but so far so good without a crash.


Two ways to launch it:

1. Right-click on 'Photoshop CS6.app' then click 'Show Package Contents'
2. Navigate via Contents -> MacOS
3. Open the unix file 'Adobe Photoshop CS6'

Or if you run this from a terminal:

/Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6 ; exit;



.
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I can confirm this indeed works. The only downside is the somewhat "ugly" Unix icon in the dock as opposed to the photoshop icon lol
 
I would like to know if there are additional errors over Mojave despite it launching. On Mojave, I get constant popups saying this app is not optimized. Acrobat X behaves oddly (trouble with print preview) and continually crashes when I try scan a document. Photoshop also crashes much more often. Dreamweaver is very unstable. This is basically why I am not upgrading to Catalina. I use Acrobat a lot, but everything else I use so sparingly there is zero reason for me to subscribe to CC.
 
kolax said:
Photoshop CS6 with apparently latest updates (13.0.6) refused to launch for me - circle with a line through it icon.

So I had a poke in the package contents for Photoshop CS6.app and I was able to successfully launch it from the unix file and start doing things. Not tested extensively yet, but so far so good without a crash.


Two ways to launch it:

1. Right-click on 'Photoshop CS6.app' then click 'Show Package Contents'
2. Navigate via Contents -> MacOS
3. Open the unix file 'Adobe Photoshop CS6'

Or if you run this from a terminal:

/Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6 ; exit;



.
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It works for me, but I think there's an issue when you try to save a file. A couple of times I opened existing files, did some minor mods, saved it fine as a PSD, then attempted to save the file as a JPG and it quit, got this popup:the pop up:

CS6Popup.jpg


Has anyone else had issues trying to save a file as a jpg? Saved fine as a PSD, but when I went to save it for the web... no dice. However, if I just saved it as a JPG in the main menu, it was saved.
 
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I have this:


Code: 
➜  ~ /Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS6 ; exit;
2020-01-19 13:52:01.858 Adobe Photoshop CS6[54901:16966954] Error loading /Library/Application Support/Adobe/APE/3.3/adbeapecore.framework/adbeapecore:  dlopen(/Library/Application Support/Adobe/APE/3.3/adbeapecore.framework/adbeapecore, 265): no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /Library/Application Support/Adobe/APE/3.3/adbeapecore.framework/adbeapecore: code signing blocked mmap() of '/Library/Application Support/Adobe/APE/3.3/adbeapecore.framework/adbeapecore'
    /Library/Application Support/Adobe/APE/3.3/adbeapecore.framework/adbeapecore: stat() failed with errno=1
    /Library/Application Support/Adobe/APE/3.3/adbeapecore.framework/Versions/A/adbeapecore: code signing blocked mmap() of '/Library/Application Support/Adobe/APE/3.3/adbeapecore.framework/Versions/A/adbeapecore'
^C

+ MacOS alert about damaging computer...

And you? Do u have same?

Any suggestions how to avoid it?
I mean PS opens, but...
 
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