Photoshop x 3 machines

[Rocket]

Purchased Photoshop CS5 extended a while ago, i use it on my PC and use it on laptop, wanted my daughter to use it on her laptop for college work.

I have uploaded the disc on her laptop, but now it wants me to re- purchase.

Can anyone advise on this, are there conditions that can be avoided.

Any Ideas ?
Thanks

 

[neil_g]

Generally unless the licence says,otherwise you're only allowed to install on 1 machine.

Adobe let you install on a laptop and desktop provided its not used at the same time. I'm not sure if that applies to the student edition however.

 

[Rocket]

Generally unless the licence says,otherwise you're only allowed to install on 1 machine.

Adobe let you install on a laptop and desktop provided its not used at the same time. I'm not sure if that applies to the student edition however.

Thanks Neil, It has allowed me to upload it to two machines, but as i load it onto a third, it says i have used the max and gave my daughter 30 days, its a shame that i have to purchase it again for use in the same house hold..

Thanks for the reply.

 

[neil_g]

Thanks Neil, It has allowed me to upload it to two machines, but as i load it onto a third, it says i have used the max and gave my daughter 30 days, its a shame that i have to purchase it again for use in the same house hold..

Thanks for the reply.

Adobe are pretty generous to be honest in letting people have two installs, I'm sure it gets abused by using it on both machines simultaneously though.

Most software vendors its 1 install per purchased copy.

 

[Amp34]

Adobe are interesting in "volume" licencing as well... They don't seem to have any way of controlling how many concurrent users of their software they have... For example you can buy two licences and then use it on dozens of computers at the same time... (Not advocating it, just pointing out it's interesting they can actually do something right!)

 

[neil_g]

Adobe are interesting in "volume" licencing as well... They don't seem to have any way of controlling how many concurrent users of their software they have... For example you can buy two licences and then use it on dozens of computers at the same time... (Not advocating it, just pointing out it's interesting they can actually do something right!)

Actually that's not true, we were using the wrong key on the windows cs4 suite we have and it stopped working after 30 days with a "this software is installed on too many machines" type message.

 

[Mikesphotaes]

Purchased Photoshop CS5 extended a while ago, i use it on my PC and use it on laptop, wanted my daughter to use it on her laptop for college work.

I have uploaded the disc on her laptop, but now it wants me to re- purchase.

Can anyone advise on this, are there conditions that can be avoided.

Any Ideas ?
Thanks

What about removing it from one of your machines?

You would then probably be able to install on your daughters' laptop.

 

[Rocket]

What about removing it from one of your machines?

You would then probably be able to install on your daughters' laptop.

Yes that might have to be the case. I have to deactivate from one to be able to activate it on another..

 

[Amp34]

Actually that's not true, we were using the wrong key on the windows cs4 suite we have and it stopped working after 30 days with a "this software is installed on too many machines" type message.

Maybe they have changed in the last 10 months then because our IT guy had to get on the phone with Adobe several times to try and understand it himself. Their response was after setting up the server side software we had to police ourselves...

EDIT: Just to clarify this is concurrent users. We have photoshop installed on about 10 machines but only have two licences, which means we can use Photoshop on any two of those machines at once.* It's odd as all our other software is very strict on how many concurrent users they allow but then adobe CS licences are peanuts in price.

*Again to clarify, all above board, spoken to the Adobe reps at the time of purchase of the licences and several phone conversations by our IT guy.

 

[neil_g]

its always been that way as far as i can remember..

which server side software are you using? we just have stand alone installs.

im also talking concurrent users, we have about 40 macs and 20 pc using CS4

 

[Amp34]

I'm a little confused by your previous comment then, with the 30 days.

I am not sure what software we are using on the server. I was only there at the beginning discussing our needs and what products we wanted with the rep and then subsequently discussing with the IT guy who was installing it. It's the server software that Adobe sent us. Do you have 60 licences then?

 

[neil_g]

I'm a little confused by your previous comment then, with the 30 days.

I am not sure what software we are using on the server. I was only there at the beginning discussing our needs and what products we wanted with the rep and then subsequently discussing with the IT guy who was installing it. It's the server software that Adobe sent us. Do you have 60 licences then?

we have volume licencing yes. however someone was using the windows version key on the back of the dvd case rather than the VL key which is when this message started popping up.