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upgrade activation?

Craig Curtis
I'm just about to buy the upgrade from 6 to 7. But before I do, I want to make absolutely sure that it will NOT deactivate my v6 install. I need to make sure that I have a function-able version (v6) but also a v7 that I can start learning and testing, before I try to sit down at a paid photoshoot with something that I don't know, and crashes every 5 seconds.

When I went to buy the upgrade, it says it disables old activations. I'm not exactly sure what that means. Anyone else have any luck using the new version AND the old version? I have an upgrade discount (from PhotoPlus Expo) so I want to go ahead and buy it, even though I am not going to put it into a full workflow just yet!
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    When you buy an upgrade from CO6 (for example) to CO7, your CO6 key will be disabled and you get a new CO7 key. Compare this process with buying a new full license of CO7. That will give you the CO7 key, but retain the CO6 key.

    However, do not panic. Your CO7 key also allows you to activate earlier versions like CO6.

    So, this is your course of actions.
    - buy the upgrade
    - deactivate CO6, activate with new key
    - rename Capture One to Capture One 6
    - install CO7 and rename the app to Capture One 7
    - activate CO7

    I haven't tried and tested this scenario yet. Currently have both CO6 and 7 installed, with different keys however.
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  • Craig Curtis
    ok thanks - however I think I'll keep v7 on a separate machine then. I was hoping the activation was held somewhere else (like when you update v6, it doesn't require another activation, as I assume the key is stored in the preferences in the user library). So I was *hoping* that I could run both on the same computer (but not at same time) to test (by renaming v6, as you suggested) but still be able to run 7. I understand that the preferences could get wonky jumping back and forth, but I would keep a copy of the prefs for each version, and replace them based on which version I was going to use.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    You can have both CO6 and CO7 activated on the same system. The activation is not stored in the preferences. The preferences for CO6 and CO7 are stored in separate files, so no need to keep a copy apart (this in contrast to CO4, 5 and 6).
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