5 Replies Latest reply: Feb 21, 2012 8:38 AM by John T Smith RSS

    Upgrading to CS5.5

    Cris is Bliss Community Member

      Is there any benefit to upgrading via the download from the adobe store compared to the boxed CD Set.

       

      I will also post this in the AfterEffects Forum

       

       

      Thank You

        • 1. Re: Upgrading to CS5.5
          Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

          Personally, I always go with the media, but if I did go the download route, I would make backup copies of all of the download files. The two versions should be identical, in all other respects, but I like having my media, and will pay a few $'s, just to have them handy, in case I ever need to reinstall, or migrate the programs.

           

          Good luck,

           

          Hunt

          • 2. Re: Upgrading to CS5.5
            John T Smith CommunityMVP

            Speed of delivery, if you can't wait a few days

             

            Also, as Hunt said, the risk of losing everything if you do not burn the download files to disc (and put the discs in a safe place)

             

            Adobe is good about keeping old versions available, but not forever... there was a message a week or two ago from someone who had a CS3 download product, THEY did not write a copy to disc, had their hard drive crash without any kind of backup, and then they were unhappy that Adobe did not still have a three version old copy for them to download again

             

            Personally, my "sort'a firm" limit to download software instead of buy physical media is "about" $20

             

            Although... my wife recently bought a program that was a $99 download ($20 more for disc, plus at least a week to wait)

             

            But, I immediately wrote the 200+ Meg file to a CD

             

            I also make a full image of her hard drive to external drive (mine also)

             

            Hardware crashes or virus infections or simple software problems happen, so you should buy AND USE software to make a full backup of your hard drive to an external USB hard drive... plus, making step-by-step backups during a new install or major program addition makes it easy to go back a step if something doesn't work

            .

            This backup and then restore is, of course, only to the same computer with a new drive (or the same drive as long as you don't mind writing over everything) since doing a restore to a new computer won't work due to Windows and many programs having activation information that is keyed to your hardware (which is why Windows will force you to RE-Activate if you change very much hardware)

            .

            The product I use is at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm

            .

            Image runs off of a bootable CD via Linux (the Zip you download includes a program to make the bootable CD) and it reads EVERYTHING on the drive, even the hidden registration information, so everything is restored when needed... and you may restore the image to a brand new drive in case of a crash, and not have to re-install anything

            .

            Please note that I own no part of Image, and I don't get a referral fee (that is just a plain web link) but I use the program and it has saved me a LOT of trouble when I had a hard drive die... and I was able to restore everything and not have to re-install or re-activate a single program, from Windows on up

            • 3. Re: Upgrading to CS5.5
              Cris is Bliss Community Member

              I decided to go the download route and purchase a backup cd from adobe for and extra $20.

               

              Thank for the info.

               

              by the way, did you do an un-install of the previous  program.  I had a lot of problems with my CS4 Crashing, specifically Premiere Pro, and I don't want to CS5.5 to inheret any of those problems.  For what I've been reading the CS5.5 suite seems to be pretty stable.

              • 4. Re: Upgrading to CS5.5
                Ann Bens CommunityMVP

                If you are having trouble de-install everything

                Run Cleaner tool and install CS5.5.

                • 5. Re: Upgrading to CS5.5
                  John T Smith CommunityMVP

                  >lot of problems with my CS4 Crashing

                   

                  I went from CS3 to CS5 so can't say too much about CS4

                   

                  However... you might want to list the details of the hardware you have for CS5.5 (over in the hardware sub-forum) before you install, to be sure you have hardware that will work well