My SL disks arrived

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[Deja Q]

1. Like me ex kept telling me,

"Do it!!"

:D

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2. I upgraded a laptop and a desktop. More or less everything went well.

The Bootcamp Vista installation on a second drive sems to have lost some minor settings

Some Matlab features died until I reinstalled Xcode Tools

A few programs like atMonitor didn't work until new versions were installed

I had to learn a new way to use my scanner through System Preferences > Print & Fax

I haven't checked everything, but I see no major catastrophes

Updating the laptop TM backup post-installation on a USB external HD is taking forever though: 7 hours so far, with no end in sight. The desktop updated its TM in about 40 minutes using a firewire external HD, with about the same 8gb+ of back-up

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I keep having luck with DW and ... new OS distros

Shall be calling them tomorrow on the morning... catastrophic failure of the license.

If they cannot or will not solve the issue... well I am done with Adobe. Found FLUX, works well and it just as capable, at least to my needs. Oh and code looks clean. So there.

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4. I don't know anything about DW. Does your version need Rosetta?

... Adobe is only supporting CS4 on Snow Leopard. Does that mean CS3 or CS2, which many folks are still using, won't work with Snow Leopard? ... CS2 works in Rosetta on Leopard, so there's a pretty good chance that it will continue to work in Rosetta on Snow Leopard. CS3 has been rock solid for us in Orbiting HQ under Leopard, so there's a pretty good chance it will also continue to work just fine on Snow Leopard. That said, Adobe's policy might disappoint some users hoping to get the benefits of Snow Leopard but weren't ready to upgrade their Adobe software ... http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/08/adobe-creative-suite-and-snow-leopard-what-you-should-know.ars

See also:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=772853
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=763766
http://9to5mac.com/adobe_nixes_slcs4

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. CS 3 ran but they had to change the drive

so now it went, no, won't run.

I had issues with it on Vista... and Adobe would not solve the issues either.

So yes, I am mostly done with them. When Dreamweaver was owned by a much smaller company or Adobe was smaller, they cared. These days they don't

[onehandle]

6. Do you mean that the license code won't take?

Whenever you have a clean system install (not an upgrade of a current system) you have to deactivate Adobe applications in the old system before you can reinstall and reactivate.

If you had a drive fail or failed to deactivate, you can just call them and explain. This has happened to me before. I had a motherboard failure and was sent a new PowerBook by Apple.

I didn't get a chance to deactivate. I called Adobe and they reset my license.