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Great - glad you got it sorted out Harald.

Thanks Victoria and Steve,
finally I managed to temporary install and test on the clean machine (needed to signing but not to sign out anywhere), will now go to the regular machine and uninstall 6.9.
Will stop here, and continue in the adobeprerelease forum.

I was just editing my post - but it timed out - to add..

Have you tried signing out of one of the two main machines from the CC applications side menu then installing the beta on the clean machine by signing in? You might need to install the Creative Cloud Application first though, however it should offer the sign in page when you install beta. I know this method works but that's all I am prepared to admit 🙂

Further I can confirm what Victoria says.. 

Best regards

Steve

To have to run the beta, you have to uninstall and then install the beta. It's just the way the installer works. Patch updaters don't get done until the public release. Your catalog and preferences and everything else should remain as normal.

At this stage in the release cycle, these betas are pretty stable (like RC's.), so you'd be pretty safe to try it on your main machine. If you want to go back to the shipping version, then you uninstall and reinstall shipping version again, but TBH, I wouldn't bother. I run the mid-cycle beta builds as my main working build all the time. It can mess up the CC app's understanding of whether there's a new update available, but uninstall/reinstall usually does the trick.

If you've maxed out your CC installs, just sign out (under help menu) on one of the other machines and sign in on the test one. When you've tested, just sign out and sign back in on the other again.

@Harald Schnitzler,

Hi, Yes you are quite correct there seems to be some licensing restriction in place on this.

To be honest I just uninstalled my 2015.9 install and replaced it with the beta. the prefs for the catalogue remain as were but the LR ones were replaced but this is not a big issue for me and I think it did offer the option to keep these when I removed 2015.9 from the CC application uninstall.

Sorry I can't think of a way round your issue at present but am surprised that you could not install as a trial period version on that clean machine.

As part of the beta agreement says we are not allowed to specifically comment  on our experience with betas I can say more.

All the best and sorry I can not be more helpful to you.

Steve

I'll try the beta if you still need people. I'm on MacOS

Struggling a bit with the installation of the beta:

it doesn't allow to install as an update over 2015.9, it rather asks to uninstall this version first.

I am not so happy to uninstall my running system. So I went to another computer (without any LR). 
Here I failed, too, as the installation of the beta doesn't allow to install as a test version (=test period). Registration dialog pops up, even if I select "Test period" at the beginning of the install.  As I have regularily registered two LR computers (which I don't want to uninstall), I couldn't install the beta on the test-computer either.

Would be more comfortable, if I was allowed to install it as temporary test version, or as a 3rd licence on my account, or install it as an update over my running environment.

Can you help?

Thanks. Invites sent.

I'd be happy to.

I'm still having the issue with my catalog and I'd be happy to beta test.