Not sure if this is the right to be posting this but I recently returned a 2012 13inch macbook air due screen issues. Now I had installed CS5 photoshop on this laptop and on my original 2010 macbook air. The problem is, I returned the macbook without de-activating the photoshop, now I've got my replacement, I'm getting the message that the software has been installed on two machines. My question is, once the returned machine is back at Apple, will they do a full restore, meaning they wipe everything off and will that be enough to de-activate the photoshop on that computer?
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Returned MacBook Air & Photoshop
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Apple well definitely wipe the drive, but I have no idea if that will fix your PShop license issue.
If the hard drive is wiped then surely the photoshop will be de-activated on that machine? Or no?
If Apple just wipes the drive without first going in an de-activating PShop, I don't see how Adobe would know it was de-activated. I think you are going to need to call Adobe.
I believe unless you uninstall Photoshop with the machine connected to the internet Adobe will have no way of knowing that it was deactivated. I would call Adobe and explain the situation, I bet they will just give you a new access code with no trouble.
They sorted it, activated Pshop on the new macbook air for me. Had to wait over 30 minutes to get through to them!