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Les Turner 01
Inspiring
December 16, 2014
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I have adobe products I need to move from a dead computer, they have not been deactivated on the old computer. Where to start and what to do?

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I have Adobe Suite Web Premium 4.0, Adobe Suite Standard 4.0, and Photoshop Elements 12.

The computer with Standard 4.0 just died, cannot boot and I need to move it to another computer.

The computer with Web Premium 4.0 is very out of date and on life support, hit and miss on booting up.

The Photoshop Elements is on my current computer.

I need to move all the products from the older machines, (not deactivated), and the PS Elements 12 to my laptop.

Don't even know where to start...

Standard 4.0 is currently on 2 computers, one at the office and one at home (dead).

Web Premium 4.0 is currently on 2 computers, one at the office, and one at home (on life support)

Photoshop Elements 12 is on my current home machine only.

How do I go about deactivating the old machines and reinstalling and activating on the newer machines?

Regards,

Les Turner

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    Correct answer Les Turner 01

    Yes Les please contact our support team directly at Contact Customer Care and indicate you are facing difficulty accessing https://licensing.adobe.com/.  If you have already tried the Forgot Password link then you will want to provide any alternate contact information which may have been utilized to make the purchase.

    You indicated that you had a number from your purchase.  This is likely your order number.  You can also provide this number and the order can be located by our volume licensing support team.  If you continue to experience difficulties can you please verify the contact information under your account at http://www.adobe.com/ is current.


    Hi Jeff,

    To make a long story shorter

    I did manage to get access to the LWS today after a fairly long session with customer care. The confusion with the login stemmed from the long period of time since the purchases and long lost information. I was attempting to login to LWS with my own personal login, and not the original credentials that were no longer known. When I logged into adobe.com with my personal login, it showed the 2 products registered to my account, thus the confusion as to why I could not access the LWS. The products were actually registered under the business account under the long lost login which I managed to recover today.

    However there was still one hurdle to cross. Because we had requested digital media with the original purchase, (DVD set), I was told that we do not have access to downloading the content. At the time of purchase we thought we were paying extra for the DVD media as an extra layer of protection against future problems), certainly never though that paying extra for discs, would disallow content downloads from Adobe. Umm, won't make that mistake again.

    So, with the original discs picked up from the office, I managed to install the Design Premium on my new computer. It appears that the only downside to installing from the original discs vs downloading from the LWS is that it seems I cannot update anything, if I try to update it just says there is no updates available at this time. I assume that any updates are no longer available, where the LWS download is probably completely up to date with whatever fixes came after the media.

    With that said, we have decided to upgrade the Design Premium to CS6 and I am awaiting an email response from them so I can complete the transaction.

    Many thanks for your assistance in this matter, as without it, I would likely be laying on the floor screaming and pulling my hair out by now!

    Regards,

    Les

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    kglad
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 16, 2014

    request an activation count reset from adobe support.

    contact adobe support by clicking this link and then clicking 'still need help' as soon as it appears, https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html

    Les Turner 01
    Inspiring
    December 16, 2014

    Contacted support at that link, and they said that my CS4 cannot be reactivated? I understand that it is a few years old, but to say that it is not possible means thousands of dollars down the drain. I am very disappointed in the answer from support

    There should be no reason why I cannot re-install the original CS4 that was bought and paid for because of a computer failure, without paying thousands more to upgrade?

    There is no way I can afford to spend thousands more right now, and officially now cannot even earn any money as I do not have my programs since the computer failure.

    There must be a way to get this done?

    kglad
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 16, 2014

    try again.  a different adobe support person may be more knowledgeable.

    if not, ask the support person to escalate your request to a supervisor.