In the case of Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) and Creative Suite 5 (CS5) you should consider upgrading to the latest Adobe Creative Cloud products and plans. For example, if you right click on the Finder icon (usually found in the lower left corner on a Mac) you can use the Go to Folder option to go to ~/Library/LaunchAgents and look for files that may have been used by the older software, but be careful because you could also negatively impact currently installed software. Or, you can try to manually find left over application files if you’ve already removed the older software. Software like Clean My Mac can help in removing programs along with the many system and configuration files that are not removed by dragging the application icon to the trash. What You Need to Doīy removing the old software you can get rid of these messages. In either case, there is software trying to launch at startup and at other times which is requiring Java. These messages look similar, but notice the first one refers to a specific application and the second one generally refers to the java command-line tool. This indicates that you have an older software program on your computer that is trying to run on a version of Java that Apple has since removed for security reasons. You may get an error similar to the ones shown below. There doesn’t seem to be a simple removal tool or utility to fix the problem. Since the problem hasn’t changed much from our previous articles, we’ll offer an update here of what we’ve learned. Similar Java problems continued over the years, and we reported again in 2012, 2014, and 2015. The problem we reported and posted about back in 2014, that continued to 2015, still exists in macOS Sierra in 2016. In 2009, we reported on a problem with Java on Apple Mac computers.

You can get the Java SE 6 Runtime installation file here. So, that simple installation seemed to resolve the problem and may work to resolve the issue for other software and other versions of OS X.

After installing Java SE 6 Runtime, SPSS ran without a problem. Today, on a computer running OS X 10.11 El Capitan, the above error message was appearing when trying to run SPSS. After three years working with various scenarios, a pattern of success is emerging.

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