I Am Submitting a Protest

[Artsketch]

20 minutes ago, Peccavi said:

I have the box with all the installation DVDs, still cant use it because they killed the activation server. I have a legal copy, license and no way of using the software.

Sorry that you can't use it any more. My last installation & activation a couple of years ago was with the server still alive. 

[loukash]

30 minutes ago, Peccavi said:

they killed the activation server

When was that? The last time I have installed CS5.5 apps (on El Capitan) was likely in 2019. There were a couple of issues because the built-in updaters didn't work anymore, so all patches had to be installed manually (and some of them were only available via archive.org, d'oh!). Other than that, I have all CS5.5 apps running on two MacBooks. But for the record, that's not the CS5.5 suite. I was buying Schmadobe apps and upgrades individually, and in the course of the years, it was a much cheaper upgrade path. it's quite possible that it's less easy to reinstall the monolithic CS suite than individual apps.

[Peccavi]

48 minutes ago, loukash said:

When was that? The last time I have installed CS5.5 apps (on El Capitan) was likely in 2019. There were a couple of issues because the built-in updaters didn't work anymore, so all patches had to be installed manually (and some of them were only available via archive.org, d'oh!). Other than that, I have all CS5.5 apps running on two MacBooks. But for the record, that's not the CS5.5 suite. I was buying Schmadobe apps and upgrades individually, and in the course of the years, it was a much cheaper upgrade path. it's quite possible that it's less easy to reinstall the monolithic CS suite than individual apps.

According to the Adobe community forum they shut down the activation servers in 2020. I needed to use flash (old plotting software was written and animated in flash which I had to upgrade to html+js and wanted to check on the original files).