Forgot to deactivate...

Greetings all... I had Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium (CS6) installed on a Mac Book Pro that I recently gave to my wife for use. I wiped the hard drive without deactivating any of the Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium apps and have read that wiping it out doesn't deactivate it. I'm certain I will buy a new Mac to work on in the near future and want to install CS6 on the new machine... Just throwing it out there if any one knows of a solution to this as I fear I am going to have to contact customer support about this... And the last time I did that NO ONE was left happy. Anyway here's to hoping something can be gained. Cheers!

Yes, you will have to contact support. Nobody here can reset the activations for you.
Mylenium

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