How to change an aperture serial number?

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How to change an aperture serial number?

when I was upgrading to leopard aperture asked to have my serial number - I just grabbed one of the boxes from my closet, it was the wrong one and now both of my computers on the network cannot run aperture at the same time.

How can I change the serial number without loosing all of my photos and organization?

imac g5 / macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5), aperture

Posted on Oct 29, 2007 2:32 PM

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Greg T. Anderson

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Oct 29, 2007 4:20 PM in response to seanich

You could try moving the file "/Library/Application Support/ProApps/Aperture System ID" to the Desktop (I wouldn't trash it just yet, in case this doesn't reset what you want). It appears to have some encoded binary information that may be the serial number info.

Otherwise, you'd probably have to remove your prefs, which would involve setting everything up again.

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Pehpsi

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Oct 29, 2007 7:10 PM in response to seanich

There's also a file called "com.apple.RegAperture.plist"

Check it out.

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Oct 29, 2007 8:15 PM in response to Greg T. Anderson

Moving "/Library/Application Support/ProApps/Aperture System ID" should do it. When I did an archive install of Leopard that file was moved into the "Previous Systems" folder and not moved back, when I launched Aperture it asked for my serial number. When I put that file back Aperture ran normally.

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seanich Author

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Oct 29, 2007 8:33 PM in response to Kevin Herrboldt

Moving the System ID did it, Thank you... now I can screen share and edit on two computers at the same time, joy.

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