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Renaming New Mac Computer

I moved my applications and data from my old Mac Pro to my new Mac Mini using the migration tool as suggested (thank you Lanny). I noted that my new Mini is now showing the name of my old Mac with a (-2) suffix. My question now is... shall I rename my old Mac (Pro) or my new Mac (Mini) under the sharing section in System Preferences, or is there another protocol I should follow. Right now, some of my applications will not run due to I suspect are licensing issues and I'm not sure which way to best proceed. Thank you- dh

Mac mini, 10.14

Posted on Apr 17, 2019 5:25 PM

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Posted on Apr 18, 2019 4:56 PM

Sorry, I’ve never had to deal with Adobe so I hope they can help you out. With Paragon I will say they were good, told me exactly what to do, provided the web site to do it and I released my NTFS package from my MacBook Pro and re-enabled it on my new Mac mini with minimal effort. If Paragon software can make it that seamless, you’d think Adobe could certainly do so, but sometimes the bigger software companies get, the harder such things are.


Best of luck.

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Apr 18, 2019 4:56 PM in response to dhechinger

Sorry, I’ve never had to deal with Adobe so I hope they can help you out. With Paragon I will say they were good, told me exactly what to do, provided the web site to do it and I released my NTFS package from my MacBook Pro and re-enabled it on my new Mac mini with minimal effort. If Paragon software can make it that seamless, you’d think Adobe could certainly do so, but sometimes the bigger software companies get, the harder such things are.


Best of luck.

Apr 18, 2019 1:10 PM in response to dhechinger

Note that renaming it may not fix some license issues if the licenses were tied to the old Mac’s hardware ID. For some software, you may have to contact the vendor and work through them to move your license to new hardware (Paragon NTFS works that way - you have to release the license and then request a new license for your new hardware and activate that).

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