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InDesign CS2 asking for activation after harddrive change?

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Dec 01, 2016 Dec 01, 2016

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I recently had some issues with my old Mac (running 10.6.8) and ended up migrating everything to a new hard drive.
Ever since then, the InDesign CS2 is asking for activation whenever I try to open a document, but it says there is not server (even when the computer is connected to the internet).
The option for Phone Activation gave me a message saying it is no longer supported and sent me to the website www.adobe.com/go/acti

Everything I found on the website says to "contact us via phone" to correct the problem, but when following the links to do so, the end result is that "phone support is not available" for that pr

Does anyone know how to either call Adobe or else how to activate a program after changing harddrives?
Thanks:)  Any tips would be much appreciated as I have quite a few designs that I need to have access to.

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Dec 01, 2016 Dec 01, 2016

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Hi Tamara,

the activation server for CS2 products was shut down by Adobe some years ago.

See here and a have a read:

"Activation server unavailable" error in Adobe CS2, Acrobat 7, and Audition 3

before doing downloads from here:

Download Adobe Acrobat 7 and Adobe Creative Suite 2 products

Basically you have to uninstall and reinstall with the new installation files.

Note: There are a few threads about this here in the forum.
But they data back a couple of years and the old links presented there do not work anymore.

The only source available for installers seems to be the one I gave above.

Regards,
Uwe

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