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License Question C1 6 to C1 7 [Answered]

NN148425UL2
I currently have C1 6 installed on my 32 bit Home desktop and on my 64 bit laptop, my question is if I buy C1 7 and register it, will that knock out my old C1 6 licence on the desktop. (I would love to upgrade both to 64 bit, but that's not possible at this time) In a perfect situation I am wanting to use my current C1 6 on the desktop and C1 7 on my laptop (as an upgrade) .... Is this possible ... and if it is ... sign me up!

Thanks

Mike
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  • SFA
    No idea about the answer but whilst I could see a similar short term requirement I am somewhat put off that option by the one way nature of any file movements - 6 to 7 only. Moreover the idea of running the later version on the laptop is not something that makes much sense to me but that's a personal thing.

    I'm not surprised by the need to upgrade hardware (in my case) nor that backwards compatibility is not possible - it rarely is. I'm just not at all sure that I would be happy working across the two versions in what seems to be a back to front allocation of resources that has been forced on me by hardware considerations.

    Despite that I will be interested in the official answer - probably best directed at the sales guys though.


    Grant
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  • Oliver Wende
    No solution from me either, but I that's also my concern.

    I'd like to upgrade the version on my pc but need the second C1 6.4.1 installation on my 32bit XP laptop to be able to shoot tethered with my prehistoric equipment.

    Oli
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  • August Fuchshuber
    Had done that with C1 V5 and 6. Have upgraded to V6 but only registered on one PC. So run V5 on the one and V6 on the other. Later, when upgraded the hardware running V5 i registered V6 on that new PC. All was ok.
    Gust
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    You should be able to activate CO6 with a CO7 key. In other words, when you upgrade your CO6 key to CO7, your old key becomes disabled. However, you can use the new key for both CO6 and 7. This way you can still use a 32-bit version of CO6 on your Home desktop while using CO7 on another system.

    Your real challenge lies elsewhere. You can not exchange images + adjustments between CO6 and 7 back-and-forth. CO7 will read the CO6 adjustments, migrate them to another folder (Settings70 versus Settings50) which CO6 will not read.
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  • Alain Decamps
    [quote="Paul_E" wrote:
    You should be able to activate CO6 with a CO7 key. In other words, when you upgrade your CO6 key to CO7, your old key becomes disabled. However, you can use the new key for both CO6 and 7. This way you can still use a 32-bit version of CO6 on your Home desktop while using CO7 on another system.

    Your real challenge lies elsewhere. You can not exchange images + adjustments between CO6 and 7 back-and-forth. CO7 will read the CO6 adjustments, migrate them to another folder (Settings70 versus Settings50) which CO6 will not read.


    Thanks for the answer.

    For me that's ok because the laptop is never used after the desktop PC.
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  • Gerald Bonne
    I upgraded my license as soon as CO7 was announced.

    1) Installing CO 7 did not upgrade my CO6 installation (it copied the settings and recipes etc... though).

    2) My CO 6 still works (I can run both one after another on the same PC).

    3) I did not try to start the old CO6 installed on my laptop yet (yet to be tested how that will react).
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  • NN148425UL2
    Thanks for the speedy reply ..... just what I wanted to hear ... now wheres my Mastercard!!

    Regards

    Mike
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  • FStgt
    awesome way to upgrade. was happy to see the separate folders and migrating as well, makes it so easier to upgrade slowly
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