OTOH
The sub model gives me two advantages:
1. I would never have come up with the £600-odd that PS costs
2. I would never have come up with the £200-odd that PS costs to upgrade
For £8/mo I get PS CC, LR and Portfolio.
If I let my sub lapse, I have about a month or so grace before everything stops working.
The sub model is evil but at the same time it means I can use PS CC.
As for your technical tribulations, I can only commiserate at the same time that I observe that you're at least 4 versions behind (CS6, CC, CC2014, CC2015). CS5 is six years old now. For context, that makes it roughly contemporary with OS X 10.7, which received its last release (10.7.5) in October 2012.
If you need a perpetual licence for a PS product that's got some semblance of support, the jump to CS6 is the one you need to make.
1. I would never have come up with the £600-odd that PS costs
2. I would never have come up with the £200-odd that PS costs to upgrade
For £8/mo I get PS CC, LR and Portfolio.
If I let my sub lapse, I have about a month or so grace before everything stops working.
The sub model is evil but at the same time it means I can use PS CC.
As for your technical tribulations, I can only commiserate at the same time that I observe that you're at least 4 versions behind (CS6, CC, CC2014, CC2015). CS5 is six years old now. For context, that makes it roughly contemporary with OS X 10.7, which received its last release (10.7.5) in October 2012.
If you need a perpetual licence for a PS product that's got some semblance of support, the jump to CS6 is the one you need to make.