Recovering Activation/Serial Number

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banick

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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. :)
 
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