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"Renew your Subscription"

Aug 6, 2012 1:40 PM

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".

 
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    Aug 7, 2012 2:09 PM   in reply to KiwiFan

    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

     
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    Aug 7, 2012 2:53 PM   in reply to David__B

    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.)

     
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    Aug 13, 2012 4:23 AM   in reply to KiwiFan

    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

     
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    Sep 4, 2012 5:27 PM   in reply to KiwiFan

    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

     
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    Sep 5, 2012 12:08 AM   in reply to KiwiFan

    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

     
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    Sep 6, 2012 10:36 PM   in reply to Karen_Cowell

    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?????

     
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    Sep 7, 2012 3:50 AM   in reply to KiwiFan

    Monthly subscriptions must check your payment status (wich is normal) ,some problems can occur if you use a different Adobe ID when you are asked to connect to verify you subscription or you have a proxy problem .

     
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    Sep 7, 2012 7:42 AM   in reply to arij2010

    Seems to me that if the problem is as you stated, support would clear that up in seconds.

     
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    Nov 23, 2012 1:06 PM   in reply to Hudechrome

    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.

     
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    Nov 24, 2012 1:03 PM   in reply to EddieBarrettSeatCo

    you should work for adobe... it worked for me thanks now i dont have to wait 2 days for Adobe to take 2 hour to fig out

     
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    Dec 13, 2012 7:41 AM   in reply to Jawon Whetstone

    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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    Jan 3, 2013 7:36 AM   in reply to EddieBarrettSeatCo

    thanks.  after a software update had this issue.  This was driving me crazy for an hour while trying to figure out how to contact them..  thx

     
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