Hi! I'm sorry to clutter up the message board with this inane message but I am desparate for some help. Normally I'm fastidious with recording serial numbers of programs I've purchased but somehow my permanent Parallels Activation/Serial Number was lost in the shuffle. Of course, I didn't realize this until I had wiped my Macbook Pro clean for a reinstall only to be horified that I had accidentally kept my original trial key. I've sent two messages to Parallels without any response as of yet. I contacted RegNow for their assistance and all they sent me was the download URL for the software. I do have a disk backup of my machine from prior to my reinstall -- I'm hoping that the serial/activation number is stored somewhere on the filesystem so that I can recover it. Does anyone know where this is stored? I looked through the Preferences folders and didn't turn up anything. I hope someone can help. I feel like a tool but I'm still hoping I won't be stuck re-purchasing the software (in particular given that I bought it just after the first beta release at the discounted price!). Thanks for helping this bone-headed fool. Steve
if you still have the backup prior to wiping, you need the following:- /Library/Parallels/.parallels_license_2.2 put it into the same place on your new installation.
Fantastic, thank you very much for your help. I was also pleasantly surprised to see a response from Parallels support this morning as well. All is well with the world again -- thanks for your help.
