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October 4, 2020
Question

PS Elements activation on MacOS Catalina.

  • October 4, 2020
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Having paid for and downloaded PS Elements on my iMac (Catalina), the activation code is not accepted. The message says it's invalid. After contacting chat, I disabled anti-virus and firewall, amended 'Hosts', installed Chrome, uninstalled and reinstalled PS to no avail. 

I get the feeling I'm not the only one to suffer from this. Does anyone have other clues as to how I can get 'activated'?

Also awaiting an answer from support.

Many thanks.

Billio

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 4, 2020

From whom did you purchase PS Elements 2020?  If you bought it directly from Adobe, your serial number is in your account portal. 

https://account.adobe.com/products

 

Otherwise, contact the vendor who sold it to you.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Participant
October 5, 2020
Hello Nancy

I bought it from Adobe direct, have tried to use the serial number but it says it’s an invalid number.

The order number is: #ADB135178158UK

I have received advice from live chat and tried all the information given but I still cannot activate.

I have done the following:

Cleared the Hosts program of all text without a ‘hash’ symbol before it.
Disabled both antivirus and firewall
Downloaded Chrome
Uninstalled and reinstalled PS Elements using the new link provided via Chrome

My system is: MacOS Catalina 10.15.7
Safari browser.

What else can I do?

Please advise.

Many thanks.

Bill
Walter_H
Legend
October 5, 2020

Get a Windows 10 PC!  🙂

 

--Walter in Davie, FL
John T Smith
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 4, 2020

1st, do you mean activation code (which may be a combination of letters and numbers) or a serial number which is 6 groups of 4 numbers?

DO NOT POST YOUR NUMBER IN A PUBLIC FORUM

Redemption Code to get serial number https://redeem.licenses.adobe.com/getserial

 

2nd, which version of Photoshop Elements?

Earlier versions will not work with Catalina

Participant
October 5, 2020

Hello John

I've purchased PS Elements 2020 for Mac.

The number I'm using is 6 groups of 4 numbers, starting 1057... which I'm asked to insert after downloading.

Am I doing something wrong, or is there another set of numbers I should be using?

Many thanks.

Bill