I want to move my Photoshop CS5 installation to a new computer.
Unfortunately, I lost the paper with the cd-key.
Is there a way to recover the serial from my local installation?
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If you logged in with your Adobe account when you first used the serial number, I believe it gets tied to your Adobe account and is retrievable through their website.
Use a regedit reader specialized for license keys,for example :
LicenseCrawler (free, portable)
or
The Magical Jellybean Keyfinder (has free version)
2Go into system information under help in the photoshop application. A long list of things will come up stuff like your plug-ins ect.
Among that will be the serial number without the dashes - just put a dash every four numbers and that is your serial number that you used to install the program.
1The serial number in system info may get you only 5 blocks of 4 digits where the complete serial number may be 6 blocks of 4 digits. Belarc Advisor gets the comlete 6 blocks.
A Mac option that worked for (my old but highly functional) Photoshop CS 5.1, just opened a terminal and ran
find /Library/Application\ Support/ -name 'regid*.swidtag' -exec cat {} \;
In any recent version of Adobe Photoshop:
Help > System Info...
Find the following strings there:
License Type: Subscription Volume License
Serial number: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXThe last one is a serial number you find.
