Keep having to put in Serial Number

[Aaron Neitz]

repair permissions? sounds like it’s having trouble writing the preference file which stores the serial

[Chris Borjis]

Contact apple support.

[David Peralta]

Does the user acct youre using have administrative rights? This happened to me one time when a computer i was using and installed final cut with wasnt an admin acct.. just a thought..

-dave

hmm… I wonder what this button does…

[Eli Mavros]

Oooh…I don’t know. That could definitely be the case here. Will check on it. So to solve it what did you do? Did you have to reinstall or log in with administrator rights and then enter the serial?

Thanks,
Eli

Eli Mavros

[Eli Mavros]

Had to go to Application Support in Library and trash the Final Cut Studio System ID in the ProApps folder and then relaunch…Fixed it. Awesome! Thanks for the posts guys and girls.

Best,
Eli

Eli Mavros

[Chris Borjis]

[Eli Mavros] “Had to go to Application Support in Library and trash the Final Cut Studio System ID in the ProApps folder and then relaunch…Fixed it. Awesome! Thanks for the posts guys and girls.”

damn, you know, I should have remembered that.

That is also how you can change your serial number.
If you have fcp installed on another machine for evaluation to see if you really need another edit room, then you buy another seat, trash the file and put your new number in.

[Mark Madsen]

i’m having this same problem, but every time i enter the serial number, it says it’s invalid. but it’s the number right off the discs that i used to install it, but it won’t let me into final cut. i looked in the application support folder in the library, but there isn’t even a proapps folder in there.
do you have any suggestions?

[Dan Freshman]

hello,

Can anyone be specific again with the file path? I’m looking in: /Library/ApplicationSupport/ProApps. Im seeing a DVD studio system ID and a Logic Express system ID but no final cut studio system ID. Any ideas?

thanks,
dan

[Stacy Mcbain]

I tried this and it’s still not working. Am I doing something wrong?