Can I add a second account to Adobe Digital Editions

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October 26, 2013
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I have two adobe reader accounts. One for my family one for personnel use. The computer has my personnel account on it. I want to add the family account to add books to my wifes nook. Can not seem to find out how to do that

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Correct answer Rave

Hi manobird,

If you used one ID to install ADE, you cannot download an ebook from a site into ADE if you used a different ID. That's the way the Digital

Millenium Copyright Act of 2000 was implemented to prevent unauthorized copying of ematerials. ADE tells you that in its HELP section. You can't add a second ID to ADE either, for the same reason.

What you CAN do is to change users, and authorize ADE with the same ID you used when you downloaded the ebook. You do this by bringing ADE up, then using the CNTLSHIFTD key combination, you will deauthorize ADE. Close ADE and reopen it, and ADE should ask you to authorize it. At this point, you can enter the second ID, and ADE will take off from there. BUT, keep in mind that any other ebooks you downloaded into ADE with the first ID will not be accessible until you go through the same process again and revert to the first ID.

Hope this helps!

RaveCorrect answer

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Hi manobird,

If you used one ID to install ADE, you cannot download an ebook from a site into ADE if you used a different ID. That's the way the Digital

Millenium Copyright Act of 2000 was implemented to prevent unauthorized copying of ematerials. ADE tells you that in its HELP section. You can't add a second ID to ADE either, for the same reason.

What you CAN do is to change users, and authorize ADE with the same ID you used when you downloaded the ebook. You do this by bringing ADE up, then using the CNTLSHIFTD key combination, you will deauthorize ADE. Close ADE and reopen it, and ADE should ask you to authorize it. At this point, you can enter the second ID, and ADE will take off from there. BUT, keep in mind that any other ebooks you downloaded into ADE with the first ID will not be accessible until you go through the same process again and revert to the first ID.

Hope this helps!

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When i enter the password into Adobe Digital Editions it says, "Unable to erase Authorization. Please try after some time." I have waited and tried and again, but the same problem keeps on coming up and I am not sure why. Can someone please help me please?
Thanks.

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DirkVdmo

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When that happens, it is very easy to "manually" deauthorize the PC by deleting a registry key.
Close ADE. Open the registry editor REGEDIT, go to the key
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\

You see a key named

Adept.

Delete that key (eg by right clicking and then choosing delete).

Open ADE and it will ask to authorize it.

I had the same problem when I cloned the SSD-disk of my PC to a larger version. After the first boot with the new disk ADE shouted "Error! Check Activation." Upon trying to deauthorize it, it shouted "Unable to erase Authorization. Please try after some time." So I went looking around in the registry and I found that key, containg a Device subkey. Having a perfect backup of my PC --the old SSD-- I went ahead and just deleted the Adept key. When opening ADE, it neately allowed me to authorize again with my ID. The registry contained a brandnew Adept key.
I guess I could have avoided this by deauthorizing before cloning the disk 🙂

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