Mac Leopard Upgrade & Photoshop CS2 Activation

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Sally Shears
Oct 29, 2007
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Got a nasty surprise…

Upgrading to Leopard… using the Archive & Install approach… Photoshop CS2 loses it’s activation and demands "Activate me!"

This required a call to Adobe who said, "You already have two activations, but we’ll make an exception for you this time." I was well treated, but I hate this threat hanging in the air.

From other comments, I believe it was the "Archive & Install" option that broke Adobe’s activation, and a simple "upgrade" install (the Apple default) might have been OK.

If you are upgrading to Leopard, be careful about your Adobe activations.

— Sally

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Sally Shears (a.k.a. "Molly")

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Philo D
Oct 29, 2007
So the way to do it: deactivate before installing Leopard, activate again afterward. Then you don’t use up one of your activations.

In article <291020071058314458%>, Sally Shears
wrote:

Got a nasty surprise…

Upgrading to Leopard… using the Archive & Install approach… Photoshop CS2 loses it’s activation and demands "Activate me!"
This required a call to Adobe who said, "You already have two activations, but we’ll make an exception for you this time." I was well treated, but I hate this threat hanging in the air.

From other comments, I believe it was the "Archive & Install" option that broke Adobe’s activation, and a simple "upgrade" install (the Apple default) might have been OK.

If you are upgrading to Leopard, be careful about your Adobe activations.

— Sally

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