NDesign CS6 and CC run well on Mojave 10.14.5

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I'm using a MacBook Pro running Mojave 10.14.5 for work. My primary work app has been InDesign CS6, but a decision was made recently for everyone to switch over to InDesign CC.

Does anyone know if it's possible to run both the CS6 and CC versions of InDesign on Mojave 10.14.5? Is anyone doing this now? Anyone ever experienced any issues with either CS6 or CC?

Thanks!

Best Answer

You can have both CC and CS6 installed at the same time. Creative Suite works well for me on Mojave, though there are some minor interface issues.

Adobe's own website states that InDesign CC works on 10.13 and later. https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/indesign/system-requirements.html

CS6 definitely won't work on Catalina, of course. However, I'm not sure why you should need two versions of InDesign. The later one is just an updated version, which can still open old .indd documents without problem.

Works

Adobe Photoshop CS6 - Bit slow but not too noticeable
Adobe Illustrator CS6
Adobe Bridge CS6 - Didn't test import but should work
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Adobe After Effects CS6
Adobe Acrobat X Pro

Does Not Work

Distiller :(

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MacOS – In a MacOS Mojave bash script “-w /etc/passwd” is false even for root

Checking to see if a file is "writable" as a way to determine if a user is root is a bad way to check permissions. For instance....

you can add a user to a group (i.e. wheel) that has write permissions to a file that's normally owned by root
a file can be flagged to not have write permissions even by root even though you have root access.
a file may have had its permissions changed to "non-writable" by root (intentionally or not)
SIP, or System Integrity Protection (as you've already discovered) will prevent even the root user from writing to system files.

Check for the User ID

Instead, you should look at the UID of a particular user with the function id

$ id -u

A root user, will have an ID of 0.

To see how you can use this in a script to check for root privileges, see the answer in the post Running a Script with Administrator Privileges.

Checking SIP

This is actually pretty easy....

$ csrutil status

However, if it is enabled, you will have to boot to Recovery Mode to disable SIP. This isn't something you can do on the command line (or from a script) in a normal session. It is much easier to simply test for the UID as described above.

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