astronut80920 Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 You should have no problem with the Affinity applications. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 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 Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 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 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 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. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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