On 24 Mar 2005 at 8:06, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote: > At the risk of seeming unnecessarily incendiary (I'm not! Promise!), I > wonder if anyone else has come across this issue before. > > I recently upgraded to Finale 2005, and also got a new G5. I used the > automatic transfer feature of the G5 to swap all of my files and > applications from the eMac to the new machine. The transfer of > license of Finale 2004 didn't work using this system, so when I went > to open it up on the new machine, it said it was unregistered etc. > > So then I ring the friendly, supportive distributor to try to get a > replacement code for Finale 2004. However because I'm in the system > as having upgraded to Finale 2005, apparently it's impossible to give > me a new key for Finale 2004. So now my copy of Finale 2004 is > unusable. > > Those of us being able to access legacy versions of the application > may be in for a shock sometime down the road when we change computers.
I haven't read the upgrade EULA, but that's the way it works for upgrades to Microsoft products -- the upgrade voids your license for the old version. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
