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My C: SSD is low on space and I want to upgrade to a larger size.  Best Buy tells me that even though I have a valid license, AF might not copy over due to pirating issues/etc when they perform a mirror image to the new drive, which would be a royal pain for me if I have to manually reinstall all my applications manually and causing me to abandon the upgrade.  Could you tell me if the AF app will copy over during a mirror and if not is there is a way around this issue?

Thanks,
Jim L

 

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You should have no problem with the Affinity applications.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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Yes, it should work provided that the new drive  becomes the new C: drive. If not you could try App Mover which works OK for me.

John

Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo).

CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB  DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

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10 hours ago, astronut80920 said:

Best Buy tells me that even though I have a valid license, AF might not copy over due to pirating issues/etc when they perform a mirror image to the new drive

Not sure why they are saying that.

Mirroring to a new larger SSD drive should be a simple and fool proof operation. I've done it at least twice when a SSD drive has started to fail or needed an upgrade

 

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6 hours ago, carl123 said:

Not sure why they are saying that.

I have one piece of software on my Mac Pro which will require reauthorization if I get a new HD. Not a big deal.

They are just making sure you have de-authorized everything that needs to be, think about Adobe's authorization/de-authorization procedure back in the day.

There used to be a lot of software which was tied to some checksum of the physical parts' serial numbers, CPU + GPU + hard drive etc, so a change of pretty much anything other than just RAM would result in "Hang on, this is not the computer I am registered to run on." coming up as soon as you tried to start your upgraded machine.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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