Install Nik Collection 1.2.11 on Mac

Nik Collection is a collection of plugins, which in its early days (until version 1.2.11) was completely free of charge.

If you already have it (or if you don't, you can get it here), you will have seen that it is complicated to install it in Photoshop versions 2020 and 2021. (Remember, version 1.2.11, the following ones are trial/paying)


But don't worry, because Phtoshopeando (ES) shows you, for both Mac and Windows, how to install it.

Basically, when you install it, you add the "host", which is a folder on your computer where the plugins for the version of Photoshop you have are located. On a Mac with Big Sur and PS versions 2020/2021, you can try to install everything by default, as it will probably work without any problem.

If you are doing this on a Mac with Big Sur installed, the installation may tell you that it is not compatible with your system.

To bypass that "limitation" do the following.

The icon of the plugin's "installation disk" will have appeared on your desktop. Right-click, the context menu will open and look for the option "New Terminal in Folder", which you will probably have in the "Services" menu.

Click on it and the terminal will appear in that folder. Type the following and press Enter:

SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 open "Nik Collection.app"

This will force it to be installed.

Now all you have to do is follow Photoshopeando's instructions.

Clean your MAC manually

One of the biggest problems you will encounter with your PC, especially if it is a laptop, is the lack of space. No matter how much hard drive you have... it's always not enough. Especially, if you've had the fabulous idea of using SSD hard disks (if not, try to change, at least the disk that takes care of the operating system... because you will be amazed with the change in speed).

And if we're talking about a MAC, you're going to find that magical drop in space and you may not be very clear about where that drop comes from.

For this, there are applications, both free and paid, that will help you in the process, but if you do not want to complicate your life with more applications, I am going to talk about 3 folders in particular that you can monitor, and I recommend that you make a folder on your desktop and include access (aliases) to these folders.

The first one, you are going to have it for sure. It is the Caché folder. You will find it in:


/Users/(your user)/Library/Caches



This folder... sometimes... cleans itself when you restart your MAC. Oh, right. It's just that you usually leave it idle... and you rarely restart it.

No problem. Go into this folder and delete its contents (not the folder, but the contents). To make sure that you do not load any ongoing process, exit all applications, go to this path and delete... not the folder, but its contents. You empty the recycle bin and a good amount of space recovered.

If you also do some design work, and you happen to use Adobe software, you may be interested to know that there are two folders used by this range of applications for their own caches.

These folders can be found in:


/Users/(your_user)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Media Cache Files

/Users/(your_user)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Media Cache



From both folders, following the above process, and for security, by exiting before the branded applications, you can delete the contents (not the folders). Empty the trash again and there you have it. New disk space gained.