Running Adobe Products on both Mac and PC at the same time

[Jeff Mottle]

I thought I would post this as I suspect it might affect a lot of people here. I run both Mac and PC platforms, but have always had my Adobe products installed on the Windows side because I was told that you could not run the software on both platforms using the same license. It's either Mac or PC, not both. As you know every Adobe license allows you to install on a main machine and personal machine as long as those two licenses are used by the same person and non-concurrently. What I did not know is that YOU CAN install on both Mac AND PC with one license by converting your license to a Volume License. (You can do this even with 1 license). So now I have 1 copy of Master Collection 5.5 and I am installing one copy on Windows and the second on OSX. Again not being used concurrently.

 

There seems to be a lot of conflicting information out there but I came across this site: http://prodesigntools.com/how-to-install-run-adobe-cs5-5-both-windows-pc-mac-os.html If you read the comments there there is more conflicting information, but I know I was told it was legit by an Adobe Volume License manager, so I'm assuming it is. If you read the comments on that post you will note some people indicated you had to purchase Backup discs to make it legit, but I specifically asked about that and was told you don't have to.

 

Anyway, hopefully this is helpful to some of group here.

 

Jeff