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Yosemite upgrade need reinstall 3rd party apps?

spin498

spin498

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Nov 24, 2010
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Being cautious, I cloned my Hard Drive with Carbon Copy. After running the install I couldn't get several of my 3rd party apps to work. Some outright wouldn't open and some demanded i reinstall the licences. Is this normal? If so I won't be upgrading my main Hard Drive anytime soon.
 
spin498 said:
Being cautious, I cloned my Hard Drive with Carbon Copy. After running the install I couldn't get several of my 3rd party apps to work. Some outright wouldn't open and some demanded i reinstall the licences. Is this normal? If so I won't be upgrading my main Hard Drive anytime soon.
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This has nothing to do with Yosemite. This is because some of your apps are licensed to one hardware device only, and when you cloned to the other drive the apps saw that and required you to reregister on the new hardware.

But if you leave the working apps where they were working on the original drive and install Yosemite over top as an upgrade, you should not need to do anything with app registration.
 
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