ADE 2 and now 3 won't take .acsm file.  Code E auth bad device key

Did reauthorization per threads on this site. get msg code E auth bad device key. used to work fine for past year. Installed V3. Same result.  What gives???
This seems like a pretty big failure for Adobe. There ought to be a post  from Adobe explaining exactly what to do without going thru all this trouble. 

I'm going to take a guess here, based on the process you said you went
through.  Here's hoping it's helpful.
I suspect that the copy of ADE you downloaded is not going to let you
register it with Adobe.  This happens sometimes when the various
ebooksellers try to give you a link to a download address, and the software
you download isn't 'legit' for one reason or another.  Ebooksellers and
others who want to put a link out there should be going to Adobe to get the
right link.  Some don't.
Next up, Digital Editions works only on Windows and Macs.  It does not work
- or load - on Android devices such as a smartphone.  I've seen a couple of
postings to the forum that say they have a file on their smartdevice that
looks like Digital Editions - sometimes complete with the DE logo.  They're
bogus in the sense that they are not code from Adobe.
My suggestion is go use your computer's utilities to copy the ebook you
downloaded to a safe place, and then deinstall the copy of Digital Editions
you loaded.  Then, go to the Adobe website, create an Adobe ID that's
separate from the one you've used already, and download a fresh copy of the
software.  BTW: ADE creates a small ID file for each ebook it downloads and
appends it to the ebook.  To make things easy, make up an Adobe ID instead
of using your email address.  That way, if you change email addresses,
you'll still be able to get to your ebooks.
When you deinstall ADE, there may be some scraps hanging around.  Use your
computer's utilities to delete the Digital Editions folder and all of its
entries.  Look to see that your registry files have been purged as well: if
you're a Windows user, you can use the Add/Delete Programs utility in the
Control Panel to do this.
Good luck - and report back
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