Hi, I know this is sort of a ridiculous question but I'm going to post it anyway. I have several thousand dollars worth of old adobe apps that I would like to preserve in case I ever decide to learn them (I bought my late-2014 iMac from a scientist who legitimately owned and used all the apps until he sold the computer to me), but I'm having a hard time letting them go.
The problem is, I'm running an old unsupported version of Mac OS X (El Capitan - 10.11.6) and once I upgrade to a newer OS, my adobe apps will no longer work (due to the new subscription model). I will lose them all. So I'm trying to see if I can migrate them over to a USB drive and preserve them somehow. Just transferring the apps themselves over to the USB will not work, right? I think I need to either clone my internal drive over to an external drive, or partition my internal drive into 2 volumes so that I can run 2 OS's...one volume running El Capitan with my Adobe apps and the second volume running an upgraded OS. The problem is, because my iMac is older (late-2014), I would need to completely erase and reformat the internal drive to a different format (from HFS+ to APFS) before I partition it and I don't really want to go through all that. Can you tell me what my options might be? BIG THANKS!
PS - If I decide to go the cloning method, my external drive needs to be at least as big as the internal drive that I'm trying to clone, right? If so, I guess I'd need a 1TB drive.
PS2 - Am I being ridiculous about trying to keep these apps? I know I'm going to get some flack for it...especially seeing as I'm not a professional and I've never actually learned or utilized any of the apps in the years that I've owned them. I just feel like there still might be a time in the near future where I decide I want to learn PS, Illustrator, or Premiere (using tutorials) and once I throw them away (by upgrading without preserving them)...they are gone forever and I'll be forced to pay the subscription fee if I ever want to learn them. If a time came when I DID ACTUALLY learn the apps, I would surely discard these old versions (CS6 & 2018) and pay the fee to use the new versions. I think I paid $600 for this machine back in 2019 (or 2020) and I felt like the inclusion of the entire adobe creative suite was a pretty big part of the incentive to buy it...although the machine was still worth it without them.
PS3 - I have an older 2009 Macbook that I'd be willing to keep and use exclusively for running my Adobe apps, but I don'y know what I need to do in order to run those apps on that machine. Can I just transfer them over somehow? Or can I transfer the apps to a USB drive to use on that machine? It's running El Cap, same as my iMac.
The problem is, I'm running an old unsupported version of Mac OS X (El Capitan - 10.11.6) and once I upgrade to a newer OS, my adobe apps will no longer work (due to the new subscription model). I will lose them all. So I'm trying to see if I can migrate them over to a USB drive and preserve them somehow. Just transferring the apps themselves over to the USB will not work, right? I think I need to either clone my internal drive over to an external drive, or partition my internal drive into 2 volumes so that I can run 2 OS's...one volume running El Capitan with my Adobe apps and the second volume running an upgraded OS. The problem is, because my iMac is older (late-2014), I would need to completely erase and reformat the internal drive to a different format (from HFS+ to APFS) before I partition it and I don't really want to go through all that. Can you tell me what my options might be? BIG THANKS!
PS - If I decide to go the cloning method, my external drive needs to be at least as big as the internal drive that I'm trying to clone, right? If so, I guess I'd need a 1TB drive.
PS2 - Am I being ridiculous about trying to keep these apps? I know I'm going to get some flack for it...especially seeing as I'm not a professional and I've never actually learned or utilized any of the apps in the years that I've owned them. I just feel like there still might be a time in the near future where I decide I want to learn PS, Illustrator, or Premiere (using tutorials) and once I throw them away (by upgrading without preserving them)...they are gone forever and I'll be forced to pay the subscription fee if I ever want to learn them. If a time came when I DID ACTUALLY learn the apps, I would surely discard these old versions (CS6 & 2018) and pay the fee to use the new versions. I think I paid $600 for this machine back in 2019 (or 2020) and I felt like the inclusion of the entire adobe creative suite was a pretty big part of the incentive to buy it...although the machine was still worth it without them.
PS3 - I have an older 2009 Macbook that I'd be willing to keep and use exclusively for running my Adobe apps, but I don'y know what I need to do in order to run those apps on that machine. Can I just transfer them over somehow? Or can I transfer the apps to a USB drive to use on that machine? It's running El Cap, same as my iMac.
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