[swampy]

Dave

Trust me, I've complained. <grin>.

It just makes little sense to me that Adobe would attach the authorization to a hard drive. Hard drives fail, get replaced, reformatted. Geez. A computer's serial number/ID is more permanent.

I'm wondering if I could deactivate the CS2 applications, make a smart backup then reactivate the original. This in essence allows for cloning all the presets, brushes, third party filters etc (the application's "data"). as an unactivated copy. If I should ever need to clone back to the original hard drive, deactivate the original, perform the restore clone then reactivate the "cloned back" application. I just don't know if this would work, but it would be a heck of a lot easier than trying to round up all the applications' data and get it all put back in the right places within the applications.

Thanks for the reply.

swampy