Either clone your current internal drive to the external drive, boot from the external drive, and upgrade the external drive to Big Sur, Monterey, or Ventura, OR simply start from scratch with a new OS and whatever apps you want on the external drive. You should find the performance to be at least as good as the current internal drive. Your 2017 iMac can boot from an external Thunderbolt 3 drive. MAKE SURE TO MAKE A PERMANENT BACKUP OF YOUR SIERRA DRIVE BEFORE DOING ANYTHING. Only boot into Sierra on the internal drive when you need to run CS4 or other 32 bit apps. switch your daily computing to an external Thunderbolt SSD running a current version of macOS.keep your current internal drive as is, running CS4 on Sierra, and….I’ll talk about the VM approach later, but first, let me offer the safest option, which is the only option I truly recommend: (Adobe also used to publish permanent activation codes for CS2 and CS3 for registered users on its support pages, but people predictably abused the policy, so Adobe removed those pages and codes.) I wouldn’t bet on being able to get a permanent code for CS4, but if it’s very important to you, you might give it a try. There have been comments in other forums that registered owners of older CS versions can call Adobe support and ask for a permanent, offline activation code, but it’s possible Adobe no longer does that. Unfortunately, as others mentioned earlier in the thread, Adobe has shut down the activation servers for CS2-CS4, so new activations aren’t possible. The main question is whether it will be “activated” on a VM or a cloned drive. Since none of those OSs are “current,” I’d only bother attempting it on Sierra via a clone of your current system or perhaps a VM. It might also work on High Sierra and Mojave, too, but definitely not on Catalina and beyond (Catalina requires 64bit apps, and CS4 on the Mac is 32bit). In principle, you should be able to run CS4 just fine on a VM running Sierra. I’m going to do something crazy and reply with a direct answer to original question.
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