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Question

CS3 downloaded, unzipped - went to launch...

Jan 31, 2012 12:32PM PST

PowerPC G5 OS 10.5.8
double clicked to open, dragging application icons to drop zone doesn't work. what am i doing wrong?

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Answer
Seems you meet the requirements to run CS3 but
Jan 31, 2012 8:38PM PST

what are the "drop zones" of which you speak?

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CS3 difficulties
Feb 1, 2012 4:33AM PST

When I launch the CS3 suite, a graphic comes up with the icons of the respective applications. I double click on an app icon and another panel comes up with a hot spot that says "Drop Zone". I dragged the icon over to the drop zone and the message came up saying, "You can't apply the patch on this file".<span id="INSERTION_MARKER"> There is no explanation on how to launch except this warning.

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I think that what you downloaded was not CS3
Feb 1, 2012 8:00AM PST

but it was a patch for CS3.

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I do have CS2 but not CS3 or Dreamweaver
Feb 1, 2012 9:12AM PST

Still cannot find online info to get this settled.

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the solution is to buy CS3,
Feb 1, 2012 11:18PM PST

then you will be able to apply the CS3 patch that you downloaded

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