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    Re: How do you update the Serial Number without a reinstall

    Posted by Otis F on January 30, 2006 at 5:01 pm

    Hello,

    We have a G5 with a Cinewave card running version 4.5 of FCP. We then bought a new copy (version 5) and made it into a dual boot system in case the Cinewave had trouble with version 5, Tiger and Quicktime. It has since proved to be ok, therefore we have installed the version 5 copy onto another suite, and bought an upgrade to the 4.5 version. I have just spent over an hour reinstalling all the Studio apps but on opening FCP it still sees the old serial number. I’ve done a search on this forum and someone suggests: “throwing away the FCP System ID file, FCP prefs and then restart your machine? then try running the updater. it should then ask for a valid serial number for the update”.

    I’ve trashed the prefs but I’m not sure where the FCP System ID file lives.

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    Cheers

    Otis F

    Otis F replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Bryce Whiteside

    January 30, 2006 at 5:46 pm

    Re: Deauthorizing FCP by Matte on Dec 21, 2005 at 10:03:48 am

    This reply by Matte to an earlier post says it is here:
    /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Final Cut Pro System ID

    HTH,
    Bryce Whiteside

  • Otis F

    January 30, 2006 at 6:28 pm

    Thanks a lot Bryce for that hot tip.

    Oiis F

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