How do I reinstall Adobe Photoshop CS4 - I receive error 6 stating that licensing for this product has stopped working.

I previously installed Adobe Photoshop CS4 on my Macbook Pro. My hard drive crashed, and I had to get a new hard drive replaced. Now upon trying to reinstall CS4 from a backup copy CD (with licensing, serial number available), I receive an error 6 stating that the "licensing for this product has stopped working". Has anyone experienced this or know how to troubleshoot? Any advice appreciated. Thank you.

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Can't start my old Photoshop CS4. Error:150:30 Licensing for this product has stopped working

I can't use my PS CS4 because it seems the licensing has stopped working. I restarted the Mac few times but this error seems to persist.

It's an extremely common error with CS4. It means the licensing is broken. For people not really familiar with Terminal, my best answer is to suggest a fresh install from your discs to fix this. You will have to reapply all updates.
Since the Help > Update part is not working well, download and install your updates (Photoshop, Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw) from here Product updates.
Usually this happens when Photoshop is moved from another computer, from a backup like Time Machine, or even as OSX upgrade to Yosemite.

I've upgraded to Yosemite and Photoshop Elements 6.0 tells me that 'Licensing for this product has stopped'.

It then recommends I uninstall and reinstall, which I did, but the new installation tells me the same thing.
I know this software is six years old but it's seems to be the last version that allows web galleries with custom templates.
The two questions are: Is Elements 6 incompatible with Yosemite? and: Is there a newer version that allows me to create web galleries with custom templates?
TIA
Luis

Thanks for the link to Roaring Apps, that's very useful.
However, although Roaring Apps states that it's incompatible, I've solved the problem and it does seem to be compatible.
As the Photoshop Elements uninstaller seemed to have left things behind, I uninstalled using the brute force method, i.e. dragging everything that seemed to belong Photoshop Elements to the trash. As I have AppTrap installed, it also suggested I trash many other files it had found.
I then reinstalled from the original disk and it works. The surprising thing is that it didn't ask me for the serial number which was the cause of the problem in the first place.
Thanks again for your prompt help.

When I try and open Illustrator CS4 on my 2008 macbook running Mavericks I get a message telling me that Licensing for this product has stopped working' Error 150:30

Has anyone encountered this error message?

According to Google a couple of folks had this error.
For instance here:
Re: License is no longer working Error - 150:30 - CS4

I had my hard drive fail on my Mac Pro. I used Time machine to restore my hard drive. All my adobe aps say that "Licensing for this product has stopped working."

Is the a simple way to fix the licensing?

thank you
I appreciate the feedback.
I actually found the original disc today and was able to re-install all.
Thanks agin
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Jeff A Wright <[email protected]>

Photoshop CS3 says "licensing for this product has stopped working"

I'm trying to open Photoshop CS3 and it is saying that "licensing for this product has stopped working", what can I do?
I no longer have the original discs on me, but have my serial #s

Download the Photoshop CS3 installer Max or PC here. You should be good to go.
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It's a common error. The best fix is to reinstall Photoshop CS4 from the discs.
If you do not have your discs, download the installer from here and have your serial number ready.
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You can get the installer here: Download CS4 products
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If you still have the license problem. get back to me with your OS details and the error code.
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Try to uninstall the software again and you have to manually
Delete the following folders:
[Startup Disk]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD
[Startup Disk]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/caps
[Startup Disk]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/backup
[Startup Disk]/Library/Preferences/FLEXnet Publisher/
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After that try to run the cleaner tool as mentioned by kglad.
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