Help me install PhotoShop Disc

February 17, 2006 8:32 AM

Photoshop DiscFilter; I have Photoshop 7.0 on a CDR and need to install on new PowerBook, G4

I have a photoshop 7.0 disc on cdr that was given to me when a left a job a few years back, it's totally legititmate with serial numbers etc. At the time I had a G3 ibook. I switched to a PC shortly after that and sold the G3, it's a long story. Now I have a PowerBook G4 and I want to install this disc. When I run it I get a message that reads. There is no application to read this PhotoShop 7.0 disc, Please choose an application....I am totally lost at this point. Any suggestions. Will this version of PhotoShop even be compatible with my new Mac which has a 10.3.9 version of OX?

posted by jamie939 to Computers & Internet (11 answers total)

Is the file on the CD-R compressed in any way? It sounds like your Mac is trying to decompress an archive of some sort and can't find an appropriate utility. Which is odd since OSX can handle just about any sort of archive.
posted by Thorzdad at 8:37 AM on February 17, 2006

Since your disc is a few years old, it is quite possible that your version of Photoshop requires a Classic environment (OS 9, etc.). In which case, you're out of luck.

What happens when you try to copy the contents of the disk to your desktop (right click-duplicate). What is the file type of the installer? Is it a .dmg?
posted by mds35 at 8:38 AM on February 17, 2006

Errr...what I mean is, is there a .dmg or .img on your CD-R? The actual installer won't be one of these file types, but will be an application inside of the disk image.
posted by mds35 at 8:41 AM on February 17, 2006

Just to be a stickler: just because you have the serial doesn't mean that your copy of Photoshop is legit. And the fact that it's on a CDR means that more than likely, it's not. Chances are pretty good that the company had several copies of the same disc, with the same serial number used for all of them.
posted by antifuse at 8:44 AM on February 17, 2006

...requires a Classic environment (OS 9, etc.). In which case, you're out of luck.
Not necessarily. I believe OSX 10.3.9 still included Classic. At least my Mac running the same OS also has Classic.
posted by Thorzdad at 8:49 AM on February 17, 2006

Thorzdad, I could be wrong, but I believe that retail installers for Panther included Classic, but if jamie939's Mac came with OS X pre-installed, they might not have it. Some time last year, new Macs stopped shipping with Classic.
posted by mds35 at 8:52 AM on February 17, 2006

My G5 came with Classic installed. I never bought a retail version. It could be that his Powerbook came with a version of OSX that included Classic. Subsequent upgrades to 10.3.9 would not have deleted it. We should ask him to look!
jamie?
posted by Thorzdad at 8:57 AM on February 17, 2006

Photoshop 7.0 ran on both OS9/Classic and OS X natively.
posted by zsazsa at 9:08 AM on February 17, 2006

Oh. Right you are.
posted by mds35 at 9:14 AM on February 17, 2006

If you dig around on the disk there is probably a folder at the root level called Adobe Photoshop 7. Inside that folder should be an installer called Install Adobe Photoshop. Double-clicking that may do the trick.

and I'll second the notion that this disk may not be as legit as you think it is
posted by photoslob at 9:40 AM on February 17, 2006

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posted by knave at 10:12 AM on February 17, 2006