Moving photoshop elements 12 and lightroom 5 from windows machine to a Mac Pro

Is it possible to transfer licence from the windows machine to the mac?
The Lightroom version does appear to be a windows/mac version but the serial number won't activate the product.
The Photoshop Elements was actually a windows version so perhaps that is more excusable.
But is one really expected to either buy this software again or just forget about them all together?

For Lightroom and Elements your license covers both Mac and Windows. You do need to install the appropriate version in each case however. I Windows version will not work on a Mac, and vice versa.
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Stephylei you will want to download the Mac versions of the installation files. If you purchased the software from Adobe, and choose the download option at the time of purchase, then the download will be available under your account. You can find more details at Find a download link on Adobe.com.

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Christopher Bullinger wrote:
Hello all,
I am currently running Photoshop CS4 extended version 11.0.1 and Lightroom version 2.3 on an early Macbook model 1.1, I have the original install disks for Lightroom, but when upgrading to CS4 extended I downloaded the upgrade from the Adobe website. I am receiving a new Imac this month and would like to explore my options for correctly transferring (migrating?) these programs to the new Imac. My search on this forum reveals that migration assistant may not be the best option for these two programs, any insight is appreciated.
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LR won't be a problem, just install it on the new computer. As long as you don't use them on both systems at the same time you won't violate the licensing terms. If you LR was an update you will also need the key from the 1.x version.
For PS CS4 just run it on the MacBook and de-activate it (Help->Deactivate...). Then download the PS CS4 package from Adobe and install it on your new system using the same license keys you used to install it on the MacBook. Since you indicated you upgraded to CS4 (from what version you didn't say) you will need the license key from the original (CS, CS2, CS3??) and the license key to the upgrade to CS4.
After installation of PS CS4 you may also need to manually install updates as it is often the case that the Adobe updater doesn't recognize the fact that updates are available.

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On your MacBook Air, download the trial version of Photoshop Elements 12 from
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Where I am not clear is why a full drive backup (that includes a copy of the catalog, using a 3rd party drive backup tool) led to a situation where the catalog info could not be completely restored to a new PC.
Let's have a look at the result of the complete restoration of a drive.
- Case one : There has been a mirror copy on the second drive
- case two : you have a clone of your disk (I supose it's uptodate at the time of crash...)
In both cases:
The media files are all identical.
The catalogs are identical.
But... there is a difference.
A cloning utility is also able to restore the original drive serial number used by Windows to recognize the different drives.
In the mirrored drive, the serial number is different from the original one.
the catalog contains for each media file:
- the full path : root folder/subfolder 1/sub-subfolder... file name with extension.
- the identification of the drive (serial number plus drive letter)
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So, assuming your mirrored version is strictly ok, the catalog is fooled by the change of drive serial number. You can either have Windows to assign the old serial number or use an sqlite management software to edit that information in the database : catalog.psexxdb.
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My suggestion to backup also the catalog was to avoid a situation where the user has a syncing software in charge of the media folders only. You are right that the catalog was also backed up in the case of the original poster.

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I tried chatting with someone earlier today, but they ended the session (I think accidentally?) before it was resolved. My error is below. Now chat seems to be closed - although I thought it was open 24/7, so I can't try that again. This is the most frustrating support experience I've ever had. I just want to access and start using the products I purchased Friday. I would be so happy if someone would just help fix this. I am not computer inept, but cannot figure out why the download is failing.
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