Restoring serial number info from Time Machine?

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Restoring serial number info from Time Machine?

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So I just had the video card replaced on my 2013 Macbook Pro (under Apple Care). This is my secondary rig but I had *finally* gotten everything all dialed in, software updated, plugins all talking to each other about a month or two back.

Got back the machine, went to open DP 8, and got a message asking if I wanted to buy the software or enter my serial #.

My guess is this won't be the only thing that will ask this of me, so before I start going through things one by one, the question is:

I made a Time Machine backup before taking the laptop in to be repaired. If do a restore from Time Machine, should it put back all the necessary permissions and such that seem to be missing now?
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You'll get some stuff to work by restoring from Time Machine, but not necessarily everything. It will depend on the authorization schemes used by your software. I think a TM restore is a good place to start.
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Thanks, Bayswater. I dug up the authorization code and got DP running fine, and so far everything else - plugins, etc - seem, knock on wood, to be working o.k.
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Certain internet authorizations do not work after a crash and Time Machine restore. Master Writer and Final Draft are the only two I ever had an issue with -- unless I had the foresight to de authorize them first (I do a lot of testing). DP 7 and earlier need to be reauthorised with the CD.

DP 8, as you found out, just needs to have the license info re entered. A few of my plugs need the same. iLok authorizations as well as serial number based ones are unaffected.
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mikehalloran wrote:DP 8, as you found out, just needs to have the license info re entered.
So can we conclude that DP 8 looks at the graphics hardware (among other things) to ensure it is running on an authorized Mac?
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bayswater wrote:
mikehalloran wrote:DP 8, as you found out, just needs to have the license info re entered.
So can we conclude that DP 8 looks at the graphics hardware (among other things) to ensure it is running on an authorized Mac?
No.

DP 8's license manager phones home on startup. I don't know where this info is stored but it is not normally retained in a Time Machine restore. With DP 7 and earlier, the Auth File is restored -- you can find it easily enough. -- but DP cannot use it without re-authorizing from the CD.

Some schemes use the MAC address. Others including Finale use the hardware address of the drive in the system-- move the drive to another position on your Mac and you have to reauthorise.
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Thanks, Mike. So far everything else does seem to be opening without the Time Machine restore.
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