p.1 #1 · Is there a limit to how many times you can activate CS6?
I only have one license for Adobe CS6. But I have a desktop and a laptop. I was thinking, is it possible to split my one license between the two computers by just activating/deactivating the key every time I want to trade?
So for example say I'm going on a week's vacation and will take my laptop with me. Can I just deactivate my license on my desktop, activate it on my laptop, and get access to CS6 while I am traveling? Then when I get home, just deactivate it on my laptop and reactivate it on my desktop? Since I'm only ever using one license at a time, just on different hardware depending on where I am physically located...
Or is there some limit to how many times or how often one can do this?
p.1 #2 · Is there a limit to how many times you can activate CS6?
Don't know if it's different with CS6 but up until now you've been able to run one license on two computers, most of the time one laptop and one desktop.
p.1 #4 · Is there a limit to how many times you can activate CS6?
You've always been able to legally install on two separate computers, and since the era of program activation has been inflicted upon us, you can have two simultaneous activations for the same license. You can, in fact, install on as many computers as you want but only activate on two at the same time. The problem with the original poster's proposition, is that, after a certain number of activations/deactivations, it will trigger an error that will require you to call Adobe and explain why you've been so active in your activation. From what I've read, that number is somewhere around twenty, which is probably more than most people do over the lifetime of their product, but it certainly is not in the spirit nor even the letter of the EULA.
p.1 #5 · Is there a limit to how many times you can activate CS6?
So if I understand it correctly, I can just simply install and activate CS6 on my laptop and use it without worry, since I'm only using it either on my desktop or my laptop, but not at the same time.
Or in other words, CS6 licensing works just like Lightroom does?
p.1 #6 · Is there a limit to how many times you can activate CS6?
Yes, you are correct. Two simultaneous current activations. They will even run at the same time on a network. You're just not supposed to be using them at the same time.
p.1 #7 · Is there a limit to how many times you can activate CS6?
All Adobe software products allow you two concurrent activations; read the EULA and you'll see this is the case.
Photoshop CS6 activation does not work like Lightroom. Photoshop, and other products, periodically "call home" to Adobe's licensing servers. Lightroom does not call home, Adobe simply trusts that you will not make more than two installations.
Ruahrc wrote:
So if I understand it correctly, I can just simply install and activate CS6 on my laptop and use it without worry, since I'm only using it either on my desktop or my laptop, but not at the same time.
Or in other words, CS6 licensing works just like Lightroom does?
p.1 #8 · Is there a limit to how many times you can activate CS6?
When one reads how Adobe feels it has the right to dictate to a paying customer how and where that customer can use that expensive product, it is no wonder the software is widely pirated.
p.1 #9 · Is there a limit to how many times you can activate CS6?
Ultimately I have to agree with you there anthony. It's funny that Adobe lets you install one license of photoshop on both a desktop and a laptop, but if you happen to dual boot windows and mac on the same machine, you are expected to get separate licenses- one for each OS. I guess to someone, somewhere, it makes some kind of sense... I guess.
