Hi, just bought Scrivener 2.6 though Apple’s App Store. It installed and launched fine, but where is the license number?
Since I also have the trial version installed on external hard drives, I had thought, to save time, I’d just enter the license number to the trial versions.
Surely I don’t have to download app again for every activation, do I?
EDITED TO ADD:
I am currently reading though “Installing on Additional Computers” at the Scrivener Knowledge Base. (Even though I only have one computer, and am intending to activate Trial versions to paid versions on external installations of Mac OS X attached via USB.
Software that you purchase through the App Store doesn’t get a separate license (it verifies with Apple’s servers that you bought it through them). In that respect (and in a very few, mostly technical ways) the version available on Lit & Lat’s website are different. The version from the website can’t be licensed through the App Store.
However, you might try copying the App Store version from /Applications to your thumb drive and then to another Mac. As long as you’re logged on the App Store with the same Apple ID, that might work.
Note that once you’ve run the App Store version of Scrivener at least once on a given Mac, you can then replace it with the one from the website and it will be licensed that way (again, I don’t know how that works). There’s very little reason to do that, unless you want to try an update that hasn’t made it through Apple’s review process yet.
After a look around the Knowledge Base, I have learned something new this morning.
It seems, I will have to download from the App store for each installation.
I’m so glad to own it, elated even. And there’s this odd charge, no longer free, I feel a little taller, stronger, I’m a Scrivener owner. There’s this strange … empowerment that says, “David, deliver higher quality stories! You owe!”
I would roll up my sleeves before I get writing. But I’m wearing a short-sleeved shirt.
Yeah, but I’m pretty sure that the registration info is stored on the Apple App Store servers, along with some checksum to verify that a particular application bundle is a valid copy of the one available for purchase & download.
My thought was that the App Store application would just figure out somehow that the Scrivener.app bundle is identical to one downloaded from the store, and that the user logged on to the App Store had purchased it previously. Easy enough to verify for anyone with multiple Macs, a Mac-formatted thumb drive (to preserve permissions), and a valid App Store copy of Scrivener, and well worth the experiment if it allows bypassing a long (or metered) download.
Reinstalling Scrivener each time from the App store turned out much less of a bother than I had worried.
As I moved from User to User, I found opportunity to organize files, and do some very due housecleaning. I tend to put files all over the place. In fact, that tendency is exactly why “Ms. All-in-one-place Scrivener” is in my life now.
Katherine, Robert…thank you all for your suggestions and guidance.
