Transfer Software To Another Apple Account

My mistake, thanks Niel.

In that case, you can do everything I said but the purchased version of Logic will appear in your Applications folder.

Again, no need to trash any data. An advantage of keeping the older version on your Desktop is that you can have more than one version of Logic in your Applications folder at one time. I have 3 different versions.

Why would you do this? After updating, sometimes the newer version might be glitchy. You can append the name of the older version and it will happily sit next to the newer version and you can run both. The older version being there just for peace of mind.

You don't need to trash or re-install anything at all. Zip the Logic app up in your Applications folder and temporarily put it onto your desktop.

Make the purchase under your own Apple ID as you normally would.

Put the app back into your Applications folder from your desktop.

As you're now registered as a Logic purchaser through your own Apple ID, you will be able to see and update Logic as you could through your employers Apple ID. Nothing extra is stored in the Logic app itself to say who it is 'registered' to. That's how you were able to continue to use it despite no longer being employed by the original owner.

Back up your data, throw the application away, and buy it.

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On a Mac, deleting and redownloading an application won't affect its data, but other things might; back up the entire system if you haven't already.

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Applications downloaded from the Mac App Store have the purchaser's Apple ID stored inside them, and can only be updated from it.

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