From what I can gather you just call Abode Customer Support whilst installing and they will manually grant you the activation.
….but when you speak to them – don’t talk in italics!
Chris.
…but when you speak to them – don’t talk in italics!
what does this mean?
well i don’t have a problem with Activation, but i wonder if i really do allways have to call the Customer Support when i want to switch the mashine where i want my ps copy running…
and why i have to visit a forum to get this information??
…but when you speak to them – don’t talk in italics! what does this mean?
….just a light-hearted way of saying the over use of italics in forum posts makes them difficult to read quickly.
i wonder if i really do allways have to call the Customer Support when i want to switch the mashine where i want my ps copy running…
if/when you upgrade to CS2 (well worth it incidentally) you can automatically deactivate from one machine and reactivate on the other any time you want.
and why i have to visit a forum to get this information??
…. we’re here to help.
Glad you’re sorted out.
Chris.
Ingo
Chris was referring to the fact that beginning a paragraph with "i" formats it in italics in the web view. Thus your whole message appeared in italics.
I think Adobe introduced "Transfer Activation" to the Help menu in CS2 to avoid what you (unfortunately) still have to do in CS1.
@chrisjbirchall
well i made the mistake to buy cs only a few weeks before cs2 was announced… so my budget is gone…
and i want start my next topic with an "i"
well i see that i have to use my phone next day,
thanks
How many weeks? If you bought CS after March 4 (I think) call Adobe. You may be entitled to a free upgrade.
Bob
for shipping costs of course… 🙂
by the way: german version is available in june 2005…
A related question.
I bought CS2 as an upgrade from CS, which in turn was an upgrade from PS6. So when I installed CS2 on my current PC, CS was there already, and the upgrade worked OK.
On my next PC, I obviously don’t want to install CS first just so that the CS2 upgrade has something to upgrade! (Which in turn might mean installing PS6 before that). I know that, in fact, the CS2 upgrade is the same size as the full version, so presumably doesn’t actually need the existing files.
So can I simply install the CS2 upgrade on my next PC, as though it is a full version, without any old version being on that PC, then activate it?
Yes, but have the CS CD handy to verify your upgrade eligibility. The installer will ask for it when it sees no earlier version installed.
Bob
What CS CD? I bought a download, not a CD.
not sure, but in that case you might have to contact adobe. they’ll give you a special code to enter to allow the upgrade to proceed.
Then use the 6.0 CD. Any version after 5.0 will be recognized by the installer.
Bob
"if/when you upgrade to CS2 (well worth it incidentally) you can automatically deactivate from one machine and reactivate on the other any time you want"
Unfortunately, thae last 4 words are not true…Transfer Activation requires an internet connection to perform. So, if you are not located near a phone or an internet connection, you cannot transfer your activation. Fortunately, the reason for doing so shouldn’t arise often at all, because one would hopefully limit such operations to times when they do in fact have communications access. The main reason I point this out is: If, as in PS CS1, an errant reactivation prompt ever arises in PS CS2 at a time when communications access is unavailable, the user will be shut out of using PS CS2 immediately. I had hoped the Transfer Activation process would simply utilize a transfer of data to removable media which might support recovery of the activation state without any outside action, yet this is not the case.
Regards,
Daryl
t’would be nice if the download version came with an image option to burn your own CD.
ID…what am I missing here?…why not just extract it, drop the contents into a CD-burning app, and burn the CD?
Because it won’t be bootable, if they create an .img file you can use ‘Create disk from image’ to make the CD as if it were an Adobe disk.
I don’t think the adobe disk is bootable…
If you extract the contents of the trial version, you’ll find that it has a AUTORUN.INF file at the root level. As such, that file will cause a CD to autoplay the setup when the CD is detected. So, there is no "bootable" CD image needed.
A little more complicated than that.
Perhaps so…or maybe there’s some detail I left out in my prior comment such that it isn’t fully correct. All I know is that when I unzipped the trial release of PS CS2, I did in fact burn it to a CD since a co-worker without broadband was interested in it as well. The CD autoplayed just fine, launching the setup screen.
A little more complicated than that.
how so?
