We purchased a monthly subscription of Creative Cloud at the end of May that runs for a year, but after a while we get this window saying "Renew your Subscription" etc when we try to use any CC application. The only way to get around this is uninstall every one of them and reinstall them, only to have the same problem a few weeks later. Why are we getting asked to renew our subscription when there is still another 9 months to go? Our credit card is being charged every month. In 'My Adobe', it informs that we have "9 months before renewal" and that our subscription is "active".
Hi KiwiFan,
The software does need to confirm the license status every month (requires internet connectivity), this typically happens silently in the background. If this status check process is requiring you to reinstall the software to resolve something is not normal. How many times has this occured? When was the last time? Did you contact our support the last time it occured?
-Dave
This is just bloody ridiculous. I too got this message, interrupting a project on which I was concentrating. The message was "Your Paid Creative Cloud membership will expire on 08/14/2012. To continue, update your billing info or add a prepaid card." Well guess what? Adobe has my bloody billing info, and the card to which it's being charged doesn't expire until 2015. This is just bloody ridiculous. Adobe needs to get its bloody act together and stop harassing its customers.
(In reading this, substitute the word bloody with the adjective of your choice.)
Thanks for your reply Dave,
We are always constantly connected to the internet, even overnight most of our computers are left on or on stand-by. I can confirm that the first notice I get of our subscription supposedly needing to be "renewed" is when I try to open Photoshop for example and it comes up with the message saying "Renew your Subscription", with the only way of escaping this being uninstalling each individual application and reinstalling it, which does substantially use up and put us over our monthly broadband allowance, as we have Creative Cloud on 2 computers. This has happened at least 3 times now since about May 30th, the last time being this week. I did contact support, but for a start found it difficult trying to interpret what they said to audible English, especially when they kept thinking that my problem was the monthly license status check, when in fact it is that I am being asked to renew the subscription as if the 12 months is up. Even if I try to select 'Renew your subscription', it then informs me that I can not renew it, whether it is because of internet connectivity or firewall protection, who knows? After almost 1 hour on the phone, I just let them tell me an answer that wasn't the answer. But I still can't use any applications and I am back to square one. They have actually sent me a Customer Support Portal which is pending my response, but I thought I would first lodge a question on the Adobe Forum. When the software does confirm the license status, are we aware at all that it has or is being checked? Or is the first message we get supposed to be when we actually are required to renew our subscription after 12 months?
Hi,
This happened to me at the start of this month. I'm very confused. I have been on holiday for 2 weeks (returning on 9 Aug) to find all of my apps not working on my mac. Checked with my bank, no application has been made to take money out by Adobe and all seems well with 'My orders' on the Adobe.com CC site.
Please does anyone know what is going on?
Hope you get somewhere with this!
K
Hi KiwiFan,
Sorry for the delay.
Based on your description it sounds like something is preventing/clearing out the changes made to your system when going through activation process and potentially blocking access to the activation server.
I would work through this document
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-network-i ssues.html
- Does your user account have full local administrative rights?
- What anti-virus software do you use?
- What firewall software do you use?
You asked "When the software does confirm the license status, are we aware at all that it has or is being checked?". It will try automatically in the background the first 7 days (a the 30 day renewal time) if this fails there is no message. After this it should go into the grace period for 7 more days and at this point tells you that it needs to internet connectivity and to renew your subscription.
-Dave
Dave,
I don't know your location but try phoning Adobe. You'll get put through to a call centre somewhere in Asia but they can see everything with your account and one chap actually helped me. OR using Twitter, I made an angry tweet to @adobe_care who then dealt with my issue as well.
Hope you get a better service soon
Karen
I have had the same issue.
I have wasted over two hours on chat with support/help people that are unhelpful.
what I know is Ive paid for a service and Adobe continue to take my money and deny my access to software I have purchased.
IS ANYBODY OUT THERE who can HELP?????
Sorry to necro-post, but I'm having this problem now on one computer (it was working fine 2 hours ago), and not on another computer. The problem with this is that one is an old x86 computer with Photoshop and Dreamweaver and the other one is a newer x64 computer that's running the video editing stuff.
Edit: I chose "License This Software" instead of Try Again, and when I relogged into the same account (I definitely didn't type it in wrong the first time because I haven't typed it in since the first time I did when I installed the software), it worked.
I had the same problems, I think. Our company credit card's date had lapse on my Creative Cloud account. I logged on and updated the payment info but still got the message when I launched any Creative Cloud programs. I had to "Activated Subscription" when I launched Photoshop. I'm not sure if I was in Photoshop or the Adobe Subscription manager at that point. It was a windows with "Activate Subscription" in the bottom left corner. Anyway, that did the trick and now everything runs as it should.\
~m
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