In versions starting with either 2007 or 2008, you can transfer the
license right from the application.
On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:03 PM, dhbailey wrote:
Lawrence David Eden wrote:
When I tried to install an old version of Finale on a school Mac
(2K4c) MakeMusic declined my attempt because I had the software
installed on too many computers. What I was trying to do was
upgrade the school's hard drive with a newer model. Finale had
been authorized on the old hard drive.
Did I fail to copy over the original authorization? What did I
omit? How does the software know "where" the authorized hard drive
is located?
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When you install Finale on a computer, it gathers information
internally such as the hard-drive brand and size and other
specifications, the CPU model and speed, how much RAM you have
installed and other info, quite possibly including specs from the
video card. From that data, it constructs a number which is unique
to your computer and sends that number to MakeMusic which generates
an answering code and the two are stored on your computer -- they
have to bear a certain relationship to each other or Finale thinks
it's been installed on a different machine.
Noel was right that usually all you have to do is contact MakeMusic
and explain what you're doing and they'll re-allow one of the
installations and you should be all set to get it activated again.
You can't really copy the authorization from one machine to another
(or even one hard drive to another) because they're very hardware
specific and won't work on different hardware.
--
David H. Bailey
dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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