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
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