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Was this a mistake or a short freebie? I know loads who got it working...
Entire Adobe CS2 Suite for FREE - Seriously.
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clarify please. did you use the provided serial(s) and successfully activate them within the programs?
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Are you 100% positive that the application(s) have been activated properly and are not running in trial mode? And that you hadn't previously purchased the licenses?
Well, the discussion has been going on the Adobe forums for 2 days, and still the download page is listing the links and serials, with no login required, or any notification that these are only for users who have previously purchased the software...
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I'm downloading....will see if it works....
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Hmmm cant seem to get it working....I follow PDF to extract disc 2 and 3 then run 1 but it keeps asking for disk 2....and if I quit and try and open Photoshop it says Key or company name invalid..... don't seem to be able to download ISO files just .EXE ones.....
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Well I've just installed photoshop and premier pro and they're fully licensed with the serial next to the download!
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The only issue I can think of is that Photoshop won't be especially useful to photographers who shoot in RAW. I don't know how long ago the most recent RAW plugin goes back, but as I remember they stopped updating it for CS3 around when CS5 came out.
Other than that... if Adobe haven't stopped people downloading or even attempted to hide it... as far as I'm concerned it's an open goal. It's not like a they're a small, amateur company - they could quite easily have set up a unique log-in system in 10 minutes if they wanted to.
Other than that... if Adobe haven't stopped people downloading or even attempted to hide it... as far as I'm concerned it's an open goal. It's not like a they're a small, amateur company - they could quite easily have set up a unique log-in system in 10 minutes if they wanted to.
From another forum -
Those of you having problems with the Disc 2 error. How to fix it:
*Note This is for those who are extracting to the default directories.
1. Run/extract Disc 2, Disc 3, and Extras first
2. For some reason Disc 2 extracts to C:\Creative Suite instead of C:\Creative Suite CS2 like Disc 1 and 3 do.
3. Copy the contents of C:\Creative Suite to C:\Creative Suite CS2
4. Run the Disc 1 installer/extractor.
If you chose your own directory for discs 1-3 to extract to then you probably shouldn't encounter the can't find disc 2 error.
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Did adobe patch any of cs2 yet 
I see they had superduperold acrobat in the package, good way to open your system to all manner of exploits.
I see they had superduperold acrobat in the package, good way to open your system to all manner of exploits.
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CS2 and Premiere installed fine on Win7 64bit here 
CS2 might be old but it does everything I'd ever need and is much much better than GIMP. I guess the only drawback is it doesn't utilize all the available ram I have.
CS2 might be old but it does everything I'd ever need and is much much better than GIMP. I guess the only drawback is it doesn't utilize all the available ram I have.
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FWIW I installed Photoshop CS2 and Audition in a 64-bit Windows 8 VM completely without issues, no fiddling or workarounds necessary, although I haven't tried any of the others.CS2 and Premiere installed fine on Win7 64bit here
BTW, given that Photoshop CS2 is a seven-year-old program, and 32-bit only so RAM-constrained as you say, what makes it "much much better" than the current release of GIMP? I'm not arguing with you (I know next to nothing about photo-editing), just curious.
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