Software compatibility and Leopard
This blog will hopefully be a helpful resource for those of you out there who are using legacy software with the sleek new Leopard OS (Mac OS X 10.5). Thus far, I have installed the Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia Studio MX 2004, Logic Pro 7, Microsoft Office 2004 and Reason 2.5 with only a couple of minor issues. It should also be noted that I am doing a completely CLEAN install and am not porting anything over from Panther. I do not reccomend anything other than clean install on any Operating System on any platform. That’s just the geek in me knowing the problems that can arise from such activity.To be completely legal in all of this, all of my software is 100% licensed and owned by me and was paid for in full. This helpful information is not designed to assist in correcting these problems with pirated software.
The Adobe Creative Suite installed without much problem. This is for Creative Suite version 1. The only problem I had was with the Photoshop CS Personalization file. Fortunately, I found a very helpful Adobe KB which helped me fix this issue that I thought I should share: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=326496. This fix will work if you get the error:
Could not fully start the application because of invalid personalization information.
In order to fix this, I had to follow steps 3 AND 4 in the KB Article. Once both files were replaced, Photoshop started and worked fine. I had grave concerns with Logic Pro 7 before installing because of information I had read on the internet about having to upgrade to 7.2.3 and part of that upgrade path no longer being available (I believe this was the 7.1.1 upgrade that was a $20 upgrade). Myself, I had no issues installing Logic Pro 7. I have yet to perform any upgrades on it and don’t intend to as long as it is working. I’d much rather spend time with a functional application than spend my time fixing something that I managed to break.
Likewise, Reason 2.5 installed and is running 100% without repair and without issues. Macromedia Studio MX 2004 is installed and should be working, but I seem to have a registration issue that I’ve experienced before. I’m pretty certain that when I resolve this issue, everything will be fine. Microsoft Office 2004 installed and working 100% without repair and without issues. I am still in the process of installing software on Leopard, but I will keep this up-to-date as time permits.
Update: Leopard is now fully functional with ALL legacy software without much in the way of problems. Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia Studio MX 2004, Microsoft Office 2004, Reason 2.5 and Stylus RMX are working without upgrading anything. Awesome. In a Microsoft world, I’d be swimming in OS failures, compatibility issues and possibly worse. Tickled pink that this all came together and I absolutely LOVE Leopard!!!!!
Alas, I am a liar!!!! I keep forgetting this one weird problem I am experiencing with the MOT828: Seems to lose itself every day or two and power has to be reset. Works fine, but it’s a minor nuisance.
Free to questions for anyone who might be experiencing problems.