Some recent postings on the Creative Suite Mac User to User forum point to some interdependencies between installations of Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Adobe Creative Suite 4. I’m not sure whether this is a cross-platform issue, or Macintosh only, but I thought I’d bring it up here to elicit further discussion. Robert Levine expressed the opinion in the thread that this was a Mac-only issue.
Here’s the posting from A. Amri that starts the thread on the user forum:
I installed parts of Creative Suite CS3 on my system (just the basics, PS, ID, Illustrator, etc.). Later on I just got Photoshop CS4 and installed that. Now, months later, I want to instally the rest of CS 3 on my system, yet half way through Disk 1, it ejects the disk and asks me to install the InDesign CS4 disk. I don’t have InDesign CS4! I did install the trial version but then uninstalled it.
And one of the forum moderators, Neil Keller, added:
On a slightly different note, on my well-maintained system, I had the Master Collection CS3 on my Mac; then installed the Master Collection CS4. When I recently decided to uninstall most of CS3 (per instructions), I found that for a few CS4 apps, I had to enter my password the first time I launched them. But Photoshop would tell me some scripts were missing, and the solution was to uninstall Photoshop CS4 and reinstall it.
These comments suggest that there are some interdependencies between the CS3 and CS4 components. The suggestion that those of us on the forum have been giving to issues like this on the Mac forums is:
- Completely uninstall all CS4 components using the Adobe Installer. On the Mac, the installer/uninstaller is located at Applications > Utilities > Adobe Installers.
- Then install any CS3 components you need, and update the components.
- Finally, reinstall your CS4 components again, and install any necessary updates.
Please share your experiences if you have both Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Adobe Creative Suite 4 installed.
This article was last modified on December 19, 2021
This article was first published on January 25, 2009
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