Comments on: Defeating the Adobe CS4 ‘License Expired’ dialog in OS X.

By: 23

23 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:37:25 +0000

RESPECT ADMIN TNX

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:49:29 +0000

now i cant seem to get this to wrok for me however i did get to find the file its in macintosh hd/library/application support/adobe/adobe pcd/cashe and there u go. my problem is that ive done this and it dosent work, the only way ive been able to get this to work is by turning my computer clock back to 2006 now this was fine but not very convenient. cs4 is the most up to date version of ps that works on my mac so someone please help i have spent over a day on it

By: josh

josh — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:16:06 +0000

well done mate, thank you now i can relax and continue on

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Looking for a solution for Adobe CS4 “License Expired” Problem — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:59:03 +0000

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By: mecala

mecala — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 04:23:28 +0000

Has anyone got a dummies verison of how after using the trail version of photoshop cs5 for mac i can get the serial numbers to work im new to mac and photoshop if anyone could help would be very mac appreciatedxxxx

By: John

John — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:50:13 +0000

Thank you so much!!!

By: zubatto

zubatto — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:04:41 +0000

trying to use ADBESTAMCS4_LS1 but seems impossible. deleted and reinstalled several times but every time says license expired even if I delete cache.db it won’t ask for a new serial will just say license experied. even if I reisntall in trial version. seem to be impossible. must buy original cs4.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:11:34 +0000

The key for me was the correct serial number….
Here are the steps I performed
Put all entries in /etc/hosts…….
Open a terminal session (Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and type the following…
“sudo nano /private/etc/hosts” (then hit return (enter) key)

now enter (copy and paste) the following lines to the end of the file
127.0.0.1 hl2rcv.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 t3dns.adobe.com
 127.0.0.1 3dns-1.adobe.com
 127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com
 127.0.0.1 3dns-4.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
 127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 activate.wip.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 activate.wip1.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 activate.wip2.adobe.com
 127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 activate.wip4.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-1.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
 127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
 127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-4.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 ood.opsource.ne
t 127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe
 127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
 127.0.0.1 tpractivate.adobe.newoa 
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.ntp
 127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.ipp 
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip.adobe.com
 127.0.0.1 ereg.wip1.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip2.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip4.adobe.com
 127.0.0.1 wip.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 wip1.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 wip2.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 wip4.adobe.com
 127.0.0.1 http://www.wip.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 http://www.wip1.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 http://www.wip2.adobe.com
 127.0.0.1 http://www.wip3.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 http://www.wip4.adobe.com 
127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com

Disconnect from all networks
 remove cache.db (if present)
Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD/cache/cache.db

 flush dns by typing the following line into a terminal session
 sudo dscacheutil -flushcache (10.5) 
sudo lookupd –flushcache (10.4)  

reboot 
launch an adobe app 
enter serial should be ok  
Serial that worked for me
1325-0958-5997-3696-7525-2029

This was performed on a brand new macbook pro running osx 10.6
Thanks to the folks on this thread that posted up, you all are tops!

By: jmillze

jmillze — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:28:02 +0000

how do i get mine working i borrowed the retail version mater collection from a friend and installed photoshop cs4 on my mac g5 then i tried to put in on a hard drive to install it to my other g5 but it says license for product has stopped working can u help me

By: erik

erik — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:13:24 +0000

I’ve deleted the cache.db file and then entered different serial codes that have been published on this site but I keep getting the license expired box. Anyone got any ideas or a good keygen link?

Cheers