there's now only one way to recover an activation, now. in the past, there were several ways including asking adobe support to reset your activation count, but that no longer works.

use the computers (if they exist, still run AND can communicate with adobe's deactivation server) with the activations and open an app > click help > deactivate. if you've already uninstalled the app before deactivating, but still have an operable computer, you can reinstall on that computer and then deactivate.

the big catch is can those computers communicate the deactivation with adobe's servers.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/download-install-discussions/activation-limit-reached-for-non-subscription-adobe-desktop-applications/td-p/14804413?linkId=100000376554410

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