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September 23, 2012
Question

Photoshop CS6 asks for serial number at every launch

  • September 23, 2012
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Was wandering if anyone else had a new copy of CS6 from Amazon.com. On system start up it askes for the ser no# each day like its a trial version it says input ser no# or buy copy i put in ser No# and it runs good all day then when i start up the next day it does the same. Help

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    December 31, 2015

    now what will i do?

    Brett N
    Adobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    January 4, 2016

    Hello Hemanta. Could you provide a bit more detail here? Are you currently working with Photoshop CS6? If so, what version of Windows are you working on? 32- or 64-bit? These details will be required to provide any assistance.

    Howard Pinsky
    Adobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    September 23, 2012

    Hi, eisenray!

    If you're running Photoshop on Windows, find and delete the following file:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\cache.db

    That will hopefully stop Photoshop from asking for your serial number each time you launch it.

    Participant
    November 11, 2012

    Hey Howard There IS a Problem I Deleted the file cache.db
    then it came back again
    then i deleted the folder cache then it came back again
    then i deleted the folder Adobe PCD then it came back again


    What the hell should i do !!!!!!

    Participating Frequently
    September 10, 2014

    I'm going to guess you are on a 64-bit system and running into this issue:

    64-bit products convert to trial on launch or prompt for activation after licensing | CS6, CCM


    Brett, that link provides perhaps the most shameful excuse for "customer assistance" I can recall seeing in any forum ever.

    The gist of that page is "Does Creative Suite constantly badger you, every time you boot up your computer, to log into your Adobe account and reenter your perfectly valid serial number? Well did you know that after loggin in again, you can cut and paste your serial number into the field every time our expensive software annoyingly malfunctions? There, we fixed it!"

    Hard to imagine offering that solution with a straight face.

    As you can tell I've become very frustrated doing this for the last two years, having tried many suggested fixes on various forums to no avail.