Thanks Godfrey! Will do. Paul via phone
> On Apr 16, 2016, at 3:55 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: > > Paul, > > Both Apple and Adobe have been tightening the security of late. Doing an > install from the Time Machine backup sometimes works but sometimes doesn't. > It's a permissions problem. I had a problem trying to install Lightroom 6 > (perpetual) too. This is what I did to solve it: > > 1- Go to Adobe and download a copy of the current perpetual license installer > for PS CS6. You should be able to find this at > https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/cs6-product-downloads.html. > > 2- Boot your system on an account that includes administrator privileges. (I > always maintain an administrator account separate from my user account. If > your 'user' account you has administrator privileges, skip to step 8.) > > 3- Using System Preferences, choose the accounts tool. > > 4- Authenticate using the lock icon. > > 5- Select your user account. > > 6- Click "Allow user to administer this computer" so that it is checked. > > 7- Restart the system and login with that account. > > 8- Have your Adobe Photoshop CS6 user code handy. > > 9- Run the Photoshop CS6 Installer and let it install Photoshop. > > 10- Start PSCS6, follow the steps, and enter your user code to verify the > license. > > 11- If you had to set your account to "allow user to administer this > computer", reverse that with System Preferences and restart. > > At Step 9, you might not be allowed to run Photoshop with a notice that > you've exhausted your license installation limits. That means that you should > have deactivated Photoshop before needing to wipe the drive and reinstall. > The only way to solve that is to start a chat with Adobe support and have > them reset your activation properly. > > Good luck! > > G > > >> On Apr 15, 2016, at 5:16 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> I’ve been running PS CS6 on my desktop and laptop for a few years. No >> problems. My laptop is a Mac Pro without a DVD drive. I installed PS 6 from >> a time machine backup once before and Adobe just requested the serial >> number. Easy. Today I had to do a clean install of the OS on the laptop and >> when I tried to install PS 6 from the Time Machine backup it wouldn’t let >> me. Adobe gave me an Error 16 and said to contact tech support. When I went >> to tech support I got a bunch of BS about different levels of support >> available but no clear way to ask a question. Digging further I got nothing >> but ads to buy the Cloud versions. Am I screwed? Might I be able to install >> it from an external DVD drive using the original disks? >> >> Paul > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
