by Daniel Crompton

How to get All the

Adobe CC apps for free!

In this video, I’ll show you how you can patch any Adobe CC apps with
the Adobe Zii patcher, including (apps on the top-right of this page) so
you can use them completely free! You don’t need to use a free trial,
and this does not involve any viruses. Along the way, you will need to Restrictions
open the macOS Gatekeeper, and disable the SIP, but you can re-enable
these security features afterwards. ◉ Only on MacOS
Please note this may not work for ALL apps. ◉ M1 Macs included
◉ No need for
Chrome

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Download Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app. Notes
Find out the app version you WOULD install from CREATIVE CLOUD ✎When you download
the file from the
Adobe Creative Cloud is an app that lets you download other Adobe apps. It does more but that’s what
website below, you
you will use it for. download the installer
for Creative Cloud.
When you run that
• Use the link in the red box to download Adobe app, it will then install
Creative Cloud. Creative Cloud.
• Open the file you just downloaded, and the ✎Inside of Creative
Cloud, if you pressed
Creative Cloud download will start. ‘Try’, you wouldn’t
• Open the Creative Cloud app, and create your start your 7 day trial,
free Adobe account. Download Creative Cloud you would have to do
that inside the app
• Under the ‘Apps’, or ‘Trials’ section, find your when you’d installed it.
desired app and press on it. In the new screen,
look on the right, and it tells you the version that Links
you would download, if you pressed ‘Try’ above. ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD
https://creativeclo
Creative Cloud app, under Apps section
ud.adobe.com/app
View picture on next slide s/download/creati
ve-cloud

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2.). Press
Try to
install THAT
version of
the app.

1.). Find out

the version
you would
install if you
pressed Try.
Download Adobe Zii, and if it’s compatible, your desired app Notes
you want free. ✎Adobe Zii = Patcher
✎Pressing ‘Try’ doesn’t
Download the Adobe ZII app that you use to patch your Adobe app with. start your free trial, it
only downloads it.
When it’s downloaded
• Use the link to go to the Adobe Zii website. It will it asks you to start
show you a list of different versions of the patcher. your trial.
Press on the latest one.
• Scroll down to the list of different apps that ✎Desired app = What
version of Adobe Zii can patch. See if the Creative you want free
Cloud version is compatible with that patcher. Adobe Zii, inside .DMG

• If it is, scroll back up on Adobe Zii website until you

see the blue download box. Press on it, and
download.
• Go back to Creative Cloud and press on ‘Try’ to
download your desired app. Links
If it’s NOT COMPATIBLE, view Page 8. ADOBE ZII
• You will have downloaded a .ZIP file, and to unzip it, https://www.adob
you need the password, which is adobezii.com ezii.com/category/l
• Open the folder, and inside, open the .DMG file. Try atest-version/
opening the Adobe Zii app (red Creative Cloud logo.)
If it won’t open, please view the next slide.

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1.).
Download
button
Disabling the Gatekeeper, and the SIP Notes
✎System
✎Integrity
If the Adobe Zii app wouldn’t open you need to disable the gatekeeper. This if a security feature on
MacOS. Read the Apple article about it with the link. ✎Protection

• Open Terminal, and copy in the following:

sudo spctl –master-disable ✎Both Gatekeeper & SIP
[enter password if it asks] are security features
• Try opening the app again, and if it still will not open, ok MacOS.
follow the next stages.

Disable SIP:
• Enter Recovery mode:
• METHOD 1: Shut down, and start up holding ⌘R
• METHOD 2: Shut down, and start up holding down power Links
button, until you see ‘Loading startup options’
• In Recovery mode, go to Utilities (in the menu bar) APPLE’S ARTICLE ON THE
and ‘Terminal’. In terminal, enter: GATEKEEPER & SECURITY
csrutil disable https://support.ap
[enter password if it asks] ple.com/en-
us/HT202491
• Check if the app will open now.

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 Links
Patch your app! Adobe Zii website
adobezii.com

Now you have everything you need: Adobe Zii patcher, Creative Cloud, it’s time to patch your app!

• Open the Adobe Zii app (now it works) and have

it next to Finder.
• In Finder press “Go, Go to” and paste in the
following:
/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2021 The diie

• Open the folder and find ”Adobe Photoshop.app”

Shortcuts
METHOD 1:
Go to folder
Drag the Photoshop app onto the ”PATCH OR DRAG” box on
the Adobe Zii window ⇧⌘G
METHOD 2: Copy
⌘C
Go to folder

Press “PATCH OR DRAG” to patch it.

• ⇧⌘G

Copy

• ⌘C

Paste Paste
• ⌘V

See the differences between these 2 methods on the same ⌘V

Adobe Zii website you got the app from.

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Using the “Adobe Packager.command” Notes
✎If the Adobe Packager
command will not
This mini app allows you to download older versions of all the Adobe app. You can use it to download a work, view my next
version of your app that is compatible with Adobe Zii patcher. slide.

• Please follow the link in the red box to go to the

Mediafire website where you can download this app.
• When you have downloaded it, open it and then
follow the on-screen instructions
If it does NOT OPEN, please view my troubleshooting page.
Inside Adobe Packager.command

INSTRUCTIONS:
• Type in the code name for which app you want free.
For example:
PHSP for Photoshop, PPRO for Premiere
Links
• Type in the version (the latest that Adobezii.com
specifies Adobe Packager.command
download
• The language
https://www.medi
• It will take a few minutes, but when it has afire.com/file/3cmr
downloaded the installer, run it to download the
correct version of the adobe app. fxhxxu08xc0/Adob
• Now, it should work! e_Packager.comm
and/file

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Troubleshooting Explanation
This is because Apple’s security feature
When trying to open the Adobe called the Gatekeeper has recognised that
Packager.command file from Mediafire, it the file was not downloaded from the App
may come up with an error: Store, therefore has not been scanned for
viruses. (Although it does not have any in,)
so cannot be opened. We can force
MacOS to open it though:

How to fix this

• Open Terminal and enter the following:
chmod u+x “pathname”
• Instead of ‘pathname’ inside the quotation marks, enter
the pathname of the Packager file.
• You can do this by:
• Press and hold Option, whilst right-clicking it, and
then ‘Copy Adobe Packager.command as pathname’
• Then paste in the pathname inside the “ ” in Terminal
• Don’t forget to press enter ⏎ afterwards!!

• You may also need to open System Preferences, go to

Privacy & Security, and under ‘General’ tab., press ‘Open
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