Uninastall / deactivate Master Collection

[perrybrus]

Since there's no Master Collection community my post goes here.

I'm about to re-format my machine. I own the CS6 Master Collection CD's. Do I have to deactivate and then preform an uninstallment process of each program in the suite in order to avoid any licence issues when I install the collection on the same machine afterwards? Is it sufficant to deactivate just one of the programs, let's say Photoshop? Will that be registered as a deactivation of the complete suite? I remember when I had CS4 I experienced all sorts of problems with this - has the system improved?

[Ned Murphy]

Deactivating one program should suffice for deactivating the entire suite.  You can test with one (try a least used one) and see if it ends up denying you access to the others.  You should deactivate but shouldn't have to uninstall, reformatting should take care of that.

[perrybrus]

Hi Ned,

Ok, so I'm all good if I just deactivate from within a single application, like PS. But is deactivation good enough to keep the license I'm using on the machine I have installed now? I tough I had to uninstall it trough Windows as well. I'm afraid to deactivate before I'm really going trough with the re-formatting process, cause I need PS for a week at least. With all the issues I had coming back into the registered user database of Adobe the last time around I'm a bit hesitant.

[John Waller]

Ok, so I'm all good if I just deactivate from within a single application, like PS.

Yes.

But is deactivation good enough to keep the license I'm using on the machine I have installed now?

Yes. Deactivation is all that the Adobe activation server requires in order to free up your activation on that machine. You can then reactivate on the same machine when you re-install.

I tough I had to uninstall it trough Windows as well.

Not necessary if you're re-formatting but there's nothing stopping you if you feel like doing it before re-formatting.

[perrybrus]

Hm, this is weird. If the whole suite / user license is deactivated by deactivating just one single program,then why are all the other programs still working without registration prompts? Shouldn't then the whole suite be deactivated?