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After upgrading to DW CS6 can I Delete CS5.5 on a Mac?

May 12, 2012 7:54 PM

Tags: #upgrade #dreamweaver_cs6 #dreamweaver5.5

I just purchased the upgrade to CS6 on my Mac, and now seem to have both CS5.5 and CS6 active. can I safety delete CS5.5? I'm thinking that it can't just delete everything, because my sites and all that came over with the upgrade when I started it.

 

Does Adobe provided a safe removal? I now have a lot of CS3 things (for my current Photoshop version) CS5.5 and CS6.  Seems that's a waste of space.

 

Any help on this would be very much appreciated.

3730 Views   6 Replies   Latest reply: martcol, May 13, 2012 9:47 PM
 
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    1. martcol,
    May 12, 2012 11:19 PM   in reply to dynoputer
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    New versions of Adibe products are not dependent on previous versions but from my reading you do have some things to think about.

     

    I have versions installed going back to the first CS when I get round to installing CS6 I'm going to have a clean out. I don't think there's anything critical for me there and 99% of the work saved for me is HTML/CSS. I guess you might need to think about any plugins or extensions you use.

     

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/971404?tstart=0

     

    http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

     

    http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/troubleshoot-uninstallation-p roblems-creative-suite-2.html

     

    Martin

     
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    May 13, 2012 2:12 PM   in reply to martcol
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    Martcol...

     

    Thanks very much for the reply.

     

    I know that my upgrade to CS6 had to have the CS5.5 in place in order to verify the existence of a qualified product, so I left it there.  Indeed there is an uninstaller for CS5.5 and one for CS6, so I guess I'll try running that first.  That's the first step it seems anyway. Then it seems you have to run that cscleanertool if there are still issues.

     

    Kork

     
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    May 13, 2012 2:57 PM   in reply to dynoputer
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    I remember getting CS3 at the end of its life to qualify for an u/g to CS4. I'm pretty certain that I needed the old disc to do that.  I've just done the same with CS5.5 and didn't need the old discs, just my Adobe ID.

     

    The install of 5.5 threw up a shed load of reported errors although the main apps all seemed to work OK.  I uninstalled CS4 and ran the clean-up tool and then went straight to a trial version of CS6.  No problems at all.

     

    I was happy to uninstall CS4 because I don't have any plugins or extensions and most of the files I save from anything I do in Adobe applications are standard files .php .htm .jpg .png apart from .ai from Illustrator.

     

    Martin

     
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    May 13, 2012 4:09 PM   in reply to martcol
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    I am not sure that I have any extensions for DW CS6. How would I find that out?

     

    I have an old version of Photoshop CS3 Extended that I'm going to upgrade also. By the definition I assume there ARE extensions, but again, I have no idea how to back those up or reinstall.

     

    Any references for those?

     
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    May 13, 2012 5:28 PM   in reply to dynoputer
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    Well, uninstalling CS5.5 completely disabled CS6.

     

    I ran the uninstall for DW CS 5.5 and now when I click my CS6 icon it looks like it begins to start, but then stops and never starts.

     

    I fixed this by going to the Adobe Store, signing-in, re-downloading the product, and re-installing.

     

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    6. martcol,
    May 13, 2012 9:47 PM   in reply to dynoputer
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    dynoputer wrote:

     

    I fixed this by going to the Adobe Store, signing-in, re-downloading the product, and re-installing.

     

    Well sorry to hear that.  I sat through the download process the same afternoon.  It takes an absolute age!

     

    Hope it is fixed now.

     

    Martin

     
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