How many versions of Photoshop do I need?

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Dena_Bartnicki
May 7, 2007
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I bought Photoshop 7 years ago and have upgrade to all the subsequent versions since then. I now have Photoshop CS3 Extended running on Windows XP. All these are taking up quite a bit of hard drive space.

My question…Is it safe to uninstall the other versions? Is there any reason why I would want to keep them?

Thanks!
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Rick_Popham
May 8, 2007
You can uninstall any or all of your old versions. You might want to keep an old version around if it does something that was eliminated or changed in a newer version.

For example, I’m keeping CS2 on my machine so I can use it to print. Adobe made some changes to printing in CS3 that are unbelievably annoying.

Rick
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Clyde
May 20, 2007
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I bought Photoshop 7 years ago and have upgrade to all the subsequent versions since then. I now have Photoshop CS3 Extended running on Windows XP. All these are taking up quite a bit of hard drive space.

My question…Is it safe to uninstall the other versions? Is there any reason why I would want to keep them?

Thanks!

If CS3 is using a previous version to authenticate it’s upgrade, CS3 will quit working without it. The workaround is to uninstall all versions of Photoshop and then install CS3. If CS3 is an upgrade version, it will need an older version to authenticate from. It can do this from the CD though.

I had the CS3 Beta and bought the download version of CS3. I uninstalled my CS2 and CS3 Beta. Then I used an utility to make sure my files and Registry were cleaned from all the old stuff. Then I ran the CS3 installer. At one point in the install it asked for a disk or location of an old version. I put in my CS CD and it read it to authenticate. After the install I took that CD out and CS3 runs just fine.

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