Migrating PS CS3 to Intel with OS 10.5.6 Plug-ins Not Available

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Michael_A_Shapiro
Mar 3, 2009
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After migrating CS3 to MacBook Pro, 10.5.6, a list of unavailable plug-ins comes up. All except two were PS plug-ins, NOT aftermarket. Sure enough, they don’t show up in the filters menu. I don’t know where else they are missing. (migrated from Powerbook 10.4.11)

What is to be done?

CS3, OS 10.5.6/ MB Pro 2GB ram, 2.4 Ghz
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Ram
Mar 3, 2009
Migrating is never a great idea, but migrating an application originally installed under Tiger on a PowerPC machine to a Mac-Intel box running Leopard goes beyond being a monumentally bad, horrendous idea. It’s sheer lunacy!

You need to wipe out that drive, or at least use the Adobe Uninstaller (installed by CS3 in Applications/Utilities/Adobe/ on your old machine), look for, download and run the CS3Clean script, and then install the application from the original media.

Also, realize that any plug-ins that were not written in Universal Binary will NOT run under CS3 on the Mac-Intel machine, unless you run CS3 under Rosetta software emulation with a corresponding massive performance hit.

Never, ever try "migrating" again. 🙁
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Scott_Weichert
Mar 3, 2009
Ramon,

Rosetta for PSCS3 is not available under OS10.5.6. With OS10.5.x if an application is a UB, that’s what it runs as on an Intel Mac, there’s no setting it to use Rosetta, at least not here.

I do totally agree with you about migration – always a bad idea and even more so moving from PPC to Intel.
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Ram
Mar 3, 2009
Thanks for the correction, Scott. So all those folks that run CS3 in Rosetta must still be on Tiger?
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Buko
Mar 3, 2009
Scott are you sure you don’t have a choice to run CS3 in Rosetta by checking the Rosetta button in Get Info on the Photoshop app.?

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