Question for (mac) laptop nerds/users....

[WON'T DO IT]

If i have a laptop with adobe photoshop/dreamweaver/illustrator/flash/in design/fireworks, FINAL CUT PRO and Microsoft Word and many more all installed on it, then i upgrade for another laptop.. is there ANY WAY to transfer the software to the new machine WITHOUT owning any of the discs.

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thanks.

[soulcheck]

Probably you just copy it using dd from one disk to another.

[Yer_Maw]

as far as i know mac software isnt like windows and you can just copy software over. But id try it first.

[soulcheck]

It should work, unless they fucked up unix "everything is a file, except for sockets" model.

[Spandex]

It moves the apps across for you if you use the "Migration Assistant".

You might need updates for the apps though, depending how different your old laptop is from your new one and how old the software is. It could end up getting a bit geeky... but if everything's more recent than the first Intel macs (2006?) it should be possible.

I did it fairly recently for my missus and it missed a few things in the "Library" folder (e.g. stuff for importing video from a specific HD camera that a mate of hers uses). I copied em over by hand after it complained that things were missing... had to do a wee bit of googling.

I'm a bit new to macs though. Maybe you should ignore me.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

I used the migration assistant and it was like my old laptop just wasn't scratched anymore, faster and with a bigger screen... I really couldn't tell the difference.

[WON'T DO IT]

purrrfict.. cheers guys.. looks like migration assistant is the way to go...

[WON'T DO IT]

oh.. do you know if it copies them or actually physically takes them off your old computer and moves them....?

[Spandex]

Copies.

[Tec]

some apps will fail hard and need re-serialisation if moved to another HD, Ableton does this as does Little Snitch

[WON'T DO IT]

Right, so it's safe to assume that I'd probably lose final cut and some of the more expensive ones... Damn

[Spandex]

Final cut transferred fine for us.

We *did* end up reinstalling it anyway tho to solve the video problems mentioned above.

[don___quixote]

Aye the ableton security is pretty damn tight compared to the majority of prgms: even expensive ones.

[Yer_Maw]

ive been buying war*ez since the cracktro days and ableton is the only software ive came across that cannot be done.

Im surprised they haven't been bought over purely for the tech on how they have done this.

[don___quixote]

That time they released the time controlled crack too. Hats off: flipping genius.

[Yer_Maw]

That time they released the time controlled crack too. Hats off: flipping genius.

totally, got me to buy it, and im of a very hard to reach group for the software industry.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

ah yeah I ended up actually buying little snitch for that reason ;)

But yeah everything big and 'important' was fine for me, including final cut.

[Spandex]

That time they released the time controlled crack too. Hats off: flipping genius.

What was that then?

I tried to google it but all I get is links to torrents :)

[don___quixote]

They released a crack a few year back that worked fine for anything up to years and then just decided to announce at a seemingly random point:"this version ain't authorised: that gig you have next week is fucked: unlucky" or words to that effect. Judging by my experience and this thread it wAs incredibly effective too. Can't think was version it was tho...

[mdk]

its was 4 iirc. funnily enough i had *exactly* that scenario, literally 10 days before a gig it stopped, so i went out and bought it.

[don___quixote]

Aye same here: I wasted a day or so fruitlessly trying to get it to work again: then figured what the hell: this is the one peice of software that actually does pay for it self: fairplay to em here's my cash.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

I wonder if they measured activity.

it would be quite simple to work out when someone had a gig if you were logging usage I reckon. (maybe not specifically a gig but you get my point)

[mdk]

yeah, would make sense.

[Spandex]

Nice. It'd terrify the living bejesus out of me using cracked software for a gig anyway tbh. That's why I'm hardware only for live. I know it's gonna work :)

last night I set it all up and was literally about to fade it up and then the Venue owner pulled the plug :( Didnt get to play a note. massive porky wank.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

fuck.. what a nightmare.

[mdk]

why?

i doubt he'd heard you before. or maybe it was the cape that scared him?

[emef]

pretty harsh spandex, what happened?

[Spandex]

Dunno. Politics. Some disagreement between promoter and owner. I stayed out of it :)

[Dal-tech]

I actually own all my software. Abdobe CS3, should upgrade to CS4.

[sniffio]

why?

i doubt he'd heard you before. or maybe it was the cape that scared him?

hardwares are stinky.

Ppl know true musicians come with empty handed.