FCS is asking me for my serial number again. Why?

My Aperture and FCS applications are asking me for my serial number again. I've been using these apps for a year now, why are they asking for my serial numbers again? I don't have the original packaging that has the numbers on them. What do I do?
Thanks,
Brian

http://www.apple.com/support/proapps/serialnumbers/
The application's ID files might be lost or damaged.
For FCS, go to the following location in Finder:
Hard Drive/Library/Application Support/Pro Apps. Do you see a file there named *Final Cut Studio System ID* ? That's where the serial is stored, but the file is not human readable.
Don't know the procedure for the Aperture ID file as I don't have it.
So how do you manage to lose the serial number for a $1000 software package?

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Does your Cloud subscription properly show on your account page?
If you have more than one email, are you sure you are using the correct Adobe ID?
https://www.adobe.com/account.html for subscriptions on your Adobe page
If yes
Some general information for a Cloud subscription
Cloud programs do not use serial numbers... you log in to your paid Cloud account to download & install & activate... you MAY need to log out of the Cloud and restart your computer and log back in to the Cloud for things to work
Log out of your Cloud account... Restart your computer... Log in to your paid Cloud account
-Sign in help http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/account-password-sign-faq.html
-http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/sign-in-out-creative-cloud-desktop-app.html
-http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-network-issues.html
-http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/trial--1-launch.html
-ID help https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?step=ZNA_id-signing_stillNeedHelp
-http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/license-this-software.html
If no
This is an open forum, not Adobe support... you need Adobe staff to help
Adobe contact information - http://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html
-Select your product and what you need help with
-Click on the blue box "Still need help? Contact us"
If you really want to cancel, You need Adobe support to cancel a subscription
-start here https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1703848
-or by telephone http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/phone-support-orders.html
--and two links which may provide more details, if the above links don't help you
-http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/return-cancel-or-change-order.html
-http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/cancel-membership-subscription.html

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So I sign of for creative cloud,
wow, this was a huge deal to get photoshop to install properly.
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"Learn More" goes really extensively into redemption codes, which I never received (was I supposed to, who the heck knows?)
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Since Monday morning, trying to install photoshop in my new office has cost me about 6 hours, it seems to be a paid program with absolutely no help or support.
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Hi Glenn,
Kindly try out the steps mentioned in the link below and see if you are able to serialize your software.
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Try Solution 2: Clean up cached user login information.
Please share the results after performing the steps.
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In case you are being asked for serial number then you can refer to.
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Re: Invalid serial number?
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But even if this turns out to be the case it wouldn't explain the App Store not having it in your history ad that still is a major problem.
regards

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