CS2 obsolete?

I have photoshop CS2 and my bridge no longer works with the photoshop. I have been told that I wouuld need to buy  photoshop 4 to get things to work together again. Would that solve my problem and if it does how long would it be before I would have to upgrade again. I can not afford to continue to upgrade. Should I look at some other programs from someone other than adobe?
anyone else with same problem? I called adobe but don't understand indian so learned nothing on the phone. I thought that a $600.00 program wpuld last longer than a couple of years.
izzwuzz

izzwuzz wrote:
Bucko,
For some reason when I try to open a picture in bridge with photoshop I get the spinning wheel of death and have to shut down to clear the wheel. My G4 Powerbook had been handling CS2 just fine and this just came out of nowhere. I have maxed out my ram and have plenty of memory left on the computer and extra hard drive (250gigs). The only advise I have been getting is to upgrade to photoshop 4 to make it work again, which I just don't understand and times are hard so I can continue to take pictures but then I am getting even further behind on my editing which is turning my hobby into a chore.
If you have some better advise, please let me know why the problem started, unless the program is set to become obsolete when new programs come out forcing you to upgrade. If that is the case I should be looking for other editing programs from companies other than adobe.
Thanks again for responding.
izzwuzz
First my name is Buko, no extra c.
Second Adobe does not make their applications self-destruct after four years. I have Photoshop 7, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 all running happily on the same machine.
the Spinning beachball of death really is an indicator that the computer is thinking, for lack of a better term. It is usually writing SWAP (scratch) files to the system drive to keep track of what is going on. If you are on a Powerbook you don't have all that much RAM so the system has to write SWAP files. Photoshop also needs to write scratch. Do you have a separate drive that PS scratch files are being written on? how much free space is left on your system drive? you may need to clean off some files if it is more that 75% full. Have you reset your prefs? another method of trouble shooting is to make a new user and see if the problem exists in the new user, but if you have very little free space on your system drive clear off some of the files first.

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