Question about Macbook/External Harddrives and applications

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Right, may sound like I'm asking a lot but it really is ONE question. I have a macbook, I am going to be getting an external hardrive[Western Digital are looking the best bet....but you can guide me otherwise :)]. I have Logic Pro installed on my macbook, from when I first got it. I got the mac in the first place because I went to college for a music course - I quit that course after a few months cos it wasnt for me, I therefore[after having installed it on me] sold my Logic Pro[I wasn't gonna lose out on THAT much money!!!!] to a guy on my course who had had to just buy a new macbook after his got stolen with his logic pro on it. So I did sell it to him - I now have no contact with him[therefore can't ask him to borrow the cd if ever needed]

Now, the thing is, I don't want to delete logic pro from hardrive, but it is taking a lot of space up on it[along with my pictures] My question is, once I get the harddrive am I able to transfer the logic pro with all the loaded rights onto the external harddrive and then delete it from my main macbook hardrive? - Will it still have the serial number etc. attached to it?? - Just incase I ever did want to pop onto the prog again and mess around.

Sorry that was so long winded!
 
Hang on, let me get this straight. You have a copy of Logic Pro installed on your Mac and yet you've sold the software to someone else?

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, but that sounds to me like you no longer own the rights to the licence for that piece of software and are effectively asking us how to help you continue using a piece of software you no longer own.
 
glitch said:
Hang on, let me get this straight. You have a copy of Logic Pro installed on your Mac and yet you've sold the software to someone else?

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, but that sounds to me like you no longer own the rights to the licence for that piece of software and are effectively asking us how to help you continue using a piece of software you no longer own.
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Oh sorry, I didn't know it was the case. I'm not very 'up' on the whole software rights, even though I still have the bills and reciepts from buying the whole thing, I don't own the rights? I think even the barcoe thing had my name on it. If not, no worries. Like I said I probably wont ever use it again anyway. Apologies.

Merovingian said:
Well I had no end of problems with WD scorpios, solving it with a Seagate.
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Thank you for tha tip!
 
Regarding hard drives, I currently have two Western Digital My Book Studio 1TB external drives which I have had no problems with. They replaced a pair of older My Book Pro drives (which were too small capacity wise). I have also had a WD drive in my G4 Cube for 4 years or so with no problems.

I also have 2 Samsung and 1 Seagate drives which have been fine. Only failures I have had are two Maxtors!
 
Shorty said:
Oh sorry, I didn't know it was the case. I'm not very 'up' on the whole software rights, even though I still have the bills and reciepts from buying the whole thing, I don't own the rights? I think even the barcoe thing had my name on it. If not, no worries. Like I said I probably wont ever use it again anyway. Apologies.
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Well, no.

Turn it around. You've just bought some software off me. You believe you'd paid for the licence to use it yet and have the licence key/code and optical media yet I'm still happily using the software on my PC. I'm getting all the benefits of usage with none of the financial drawbacks of ownership.

I've only ever known Logic to be a single-user licence. And if you've sold that licence to someone else you don't really have any right to have the software still installed on your Mac or be capable of using it.
 
This Logic had multiple user license, I rem the guy saying so, but he wasnt saying it for me, he was saying that it means he can have it installed on lappy and desktop with no probs, I can't rem how much and I can't check cos I don't speak to the guy anymore, but not to worry, I havn't used the program in WELL over a year and half. I'll just uninstall it.

Thanks.

I'm going to now start new topic about which drive suits me best as I'm going to want to take iy with me wherever my laptop goes[for work]. Just looked at the WD Book, and price wise it's better than two passports, however I;m worried about the weight/size of it if I'm going to be carrying it around!
 
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