cannot buy another logic pro licence as it is already installed on machine

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cannot buy another logic pro licence as it is already installed on machine

I know this is no Logic thing, but I definitively hope that anyone from Apple is reading along.

Started a new business and keep that old SL machine already equipped with Logic Pro + MainStage. The other licence will get used by the other business. As of this I would like to buy a new licence for this machine. What do I have to do to keep my current environment (not loosing anything) just replacing the licence. Tried doing this in App Store. It asks me if I am safe to buy this licence anyways. When saying yes it that the buy cannot be finished as Logic Pro is already installed on this machine. Does this mean I have to completely setup everything? Hopefully not!

This is my first experience with App Store. What I see until now it does not replace the good old glossy paper box. 😟

Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

BTW: This does only partially fit here. I had to login with an 'emergency' apple-id I created once as I could not login with my normal Apple-ID. It asked me to login twice and in a further dialog to pick a username. The point is, that this other account is related to my Apple Developer account. Maybe a person could get in touch with me to please correcting things.

MBP17, some Minis @customers more others, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Jul 17, 2012 2:38 AM

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robsmiler61 Author

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Jul 17, 2012 3:00 AM in response to robsmiler61

Did some research and found that this Logic Pro licence is in:

$ ls -al /Library/Application\ Support/ProApps/Logic\ Studio\ System\ ID

-rwxrw-rw- 1 roberts wheel 421 21 Sep 2009 /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Logic Studio System ID

So it should be possible to replace it with another licence number and registring a new name.

The other question that did arise inbetween is what if I want to move Logic Pro one day to another computer. Appearently there will be no .dmg nor any licence number as in the past when installing out of the box.

Could you please explain how this is done. ((I don't hope that Apple will do same mistakes as Microsoft did with their weird activation crap.))

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Blueberry

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Jul 17, 2012 8:09 AM in response to robsmiler61

Because the applications are linked the Apple ID, it should be bought by the Apple ID for the new business. You can only buy a product once per Apple ID (more wouldn't make sense).

That said: you are allowed to install Logic Pro on all machines that are "under your control". If you are still managing the other machine, it might be just fine to just not buy another license.

BTW: The recommendation regarding the Logic Pro license file is wrong, that only applies to the DVD version of Logic, not the Apple Store version.

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robsmiler61 Author

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Jul 17, 2012 9:22 AM in response to Blueberry

Ok. The current version on this MBP was installed from a DVD version. The other machine (where this DVD version will/or already is - don't know) is NOT under my control or even accessible.

I don't want to setup everything new as things are perfectly working. But I definitively want to BUY A LICENCE. It does not bother me to have a foreign licence number and name in this id file as long as I legally bought a licence that nobody can telling me you stole it.

Hope this clarifies the situation.

Don't cannot reinstall this machine from scrap because of this:

$ df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on

/dev/disk0s2 698Gi 503Gi 195Gi 73% /

...it is heavily loaded.

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Blueberry

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Jul 17, 2012 9:24 AM in response to robsmiler61

That doesn't work! It should be the Apple ID of the new owner, because they have to enter the Apple ID passwort, e.g. when an update is released. Do not, I repeat, do not use your Apple ID for somebody elses machine, if you don't have control over that machine.

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robsmiler61 Author

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Jul 17, 2012 9:47 AM in response to Blueberry

This is ! my machine (MacBookPro5,2) so somewhat older but still perfectly working. That guy entered his id during installation of Logic Pro 9. So to say he lent me that Logic Pro to work with it for him.

I already bought App Store cards with value of Logic Pro and entered their keys onto my own !! Apple-ID. For just the purpose of buying Logic Pro and MainStage because I could not find a boxed version anymore.

What do you suggest?

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