raphaelbolius Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Hi, community, recently I bought an new Mac (it has those new M1 chips) and now i started moving everything to the new machine. How do I do that with affinity designer and affinity photo? Legally I have the right to do so. That I know and that is not the question. But technically? I just grab the programm from the programm folder and move it into the programms folder of the new machine? Or do I have to download it again to the new machine? I bought both apps some tine ago, so I do not remember very well if I have any licence keys or other stuff that might be needed. Maybe someone has a link that explains the topic, cause I maybe that is a common question. Nevertheless I could not find it in the FAQ. Thanks Raphael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 If you purchased originally from the Mac App Store, @raphaelbolius, just sign-in to the MAS using the same credentials you used on your old machine, switch to the Purchased tab, and install from there. If you purchased from Serif's Affinity Store, just go to https://affinity.store/account/downloads, sign-in, and you will be able to download installer files for the current release, and see the product key and email address you'll need to reinstall. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 If you purchased the apps from the Affinity Store and you still have a copy of the downloaded *.dmg file you can copy it from one machine to the other instead of downloading it all over again, but you’ll need to log in to the Affinity Store to retrieve your product key unless you’ve kept a note of it. As @walt.farrell has indicated, if you have the MAS versions you’ll need to log in to the MAS to install them. MAS purchases are tied to your Apple ID, so there are no product keys for them. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raphaelbolius Posted April 18, 2021 Author Share Posted April 18, 2021 OK, thanks. That explains everything. Unfortunately I could not find it in the FAQ, sorry ! Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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