Partitioned Mojave won't load CS4 with Catalina

[MBAir2010]

Hello Mojave users!

I have a MacBook Pro 2012 and trying to run Creative Suit 4 and the porgrams won't load
would this be that Catalina is on the same hard drive?
the DVD are fine, the correct serial number won't accept the process of going to the next step.
I hav eused these disks since 2012

I'm at my wits end and Adobe was no help...
thanks in advance!~

 

[MBAir2010]

What i found out is i would need to install a previous OS X like High Sierra then install Mojave eon top of that.
the disks worked on ElCapitan today.

 

[WebHead]

Was it a fresh or existing install of CS4? I'm trying to establish if there's a workaround for the CS4 activation servers being retired.

 

[MBAir2010]

Was it a fresh or existing install of CS4? I'm trying to establish if there's a workaround for the CS4 activation servers being retired.

fresh install with a CS4 dvd disk, I imported that from an El Cap time machine
but ya already know this I hope!
what a bugger Adobe is since 2010! :~/

 

[saudor]

Do you have the el captain hard disk with the CS4 activated and working?
If so, you can try cloning that (I find time machine doesn't transfer activation statuses) and then upgrading the clone to mojave etc

But sounds like the catalina upgrade did something that is now causing the activation records to fail and require re-activation (which won't work since CS4 activation servers are dead)

 

[WebHead]

Coupla potential solutions in this alternative thread I started.