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I had a fully licensed copy of Lightroom 3 running on my desktop machine (iMac). Once LR4 was released, I downloaded LR4 on that machine to use on a "trial" basis while waiting on my boxed copy of LR4 (upgrade version). Once I get my boxed copy of LR4, I entered the upgrade key from the LR4 box into Lightroom, and (as expected), the software asked for my "previous version" key since what I entered was an upgrade key rather than a full key. I noticed that it pre-populated my LR3 key (I suppose since a licensed version of LR3 had been running on that machine previously). All was good - it took the key and enabled the software.
So far so good.
Now, I just bought a new laptop (MacBook Pro). This machine has never had LR3 on it. I installed LR4 and started using it on a trial basis same as my desktop. Once I got my boxed copy of my LR4 upgrade, I enter the key from the LR4 box into Lightroom, and like on my desktop it asked for the key from my "previous version" of Lightroom. Same as before. Only this time the LR3 key was not pre-populated (I suppose since LR3 had never existed on this machine).
Now, the problem is that when I enter my LR3 key (in conjunction with my LR4 upgrade key) on my laptop, it does not take. There remains a big "X" to the right of my key as if the key is invalid. I have triple checked the value of the key (it is the Serial Number from my LR3 boxed copy) and it is correct, and it is the same one that worked on my desktop.
Questions:
- Anyone else know what could explain this?
- Do I actually have to have an installed version of LR3 on my Laptop in order to use the upgrade key to enable LR4? Or should I just be able to have only LR4 installed, and enter both my LR3 (full) + LR4 (upgrade) license keys? Hopefully the latter..
- Any other suggestions?
Thanks
Chris

Please disregard.
It just worked all of a sudden (copying and pasting same S/N, so I don't know what changed...).

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