Adobe CC - what's the point?

[tricky]

We have a collection of Adobe products that we are considering upgrading to CC (for Teams).

I had assumed that if we had 5 users (for example), they can install the app as many times as they like on all their computers. Maybe they have a workstation, a laptop, a home PC and another PC in a different office. Unfortunately, you can't. You can still only install/activate each product on two machines!

Very frustrating. Not particularly Creative with the Cloud if you ask me!

[Donald2B]

You can only have two seats active at a time per user. I've got people with three machines and have it installed on all three machines. Only two will function at the same time. So when the third machine needs to be used, you will need to login and it will deactivate the license on one of the other machines. It's to prevent one license from being used across many machines.

It's still a new concept and I think that there are still some things that need to be smoothed out, but it's not horrible by any means.

[tricky]

Thanks Troy. That's certainly not how it was described to me by our reseller. Looks like it might be a usable setup.

So, in theory, one user could have it installed on 10 different machines, but only 2 can be activated at any one time. If he goes to one of these 10 machines that isn't currently activated, Adobe will automatically deactivate the license on one of the other machines? He doesn't have to go to one of these activated machines and manually deactivate the license first?

[AlexP]

I also read/heard that you could only deactivate/reactivate a certain number of times though.

[Donald2B]

You know, we don't have to shuffle licenses that much, so, honestly I never really looked into the activation of various machines. I will take a look into that.

@Richard: I would just look at getting that person a laptop if they are going to be traveling to that many different locations...that could be very difficult to work with licenses. I still want a way to keep licenses in a cloud system instead of on a local server / node locked. Similar to CC, but if I want to use a piece of software, all I need is an internet connection and login information and I'm good to go!

[samuel_bubat]

yeah awesome , just like that CC error that recently locked out many CC users from their software.
http://www.cnet.com/news/adobe-resto...y-long-outage/
Honestly I could go back 5 photoshop version and wouldn´t miss much. Unless you really really need a new feature
there´s no point in upgrading to such a stupid business model.

[Neilg]

So, in theory, one user could have it installed on 10 different machines, but only 2 can be activated at any one time.

pretty much. but they dont get 'activated' - you log into your CC account with a small piece of software, and then if you own software installed on the machine you can use it.
You can set it to require a login every time or keep you logged in at all times - the latter is what you want at the office. when that's set you can be active on 2 at once (what your reseller was talking about) so you don't end up getting home and going 'shit, i forgot to log out and left my machine on, now I cant use photoshop'.

you can install it on hundreds of machines and it just wont work until someone logs in with their CC account.

I'm a huge fan of the system, it works well.

[glorybound]

also, it gets iterated faster

[squintnic]

and photoshop crashes now lol
thats my fave new feature

[Neilg]

I've not seen photoshop crash in 3/4 years, it's the most stable software i've ever used. There is a pretty serious bug where it doesn't save files though...

[squintnic]

hmm well id not seen it until recently when our studio upgraded and now we are having intermittent freeze on save and not being able to recover.

[Neilg]

That might be due to the same 'save in background' feature. I think it's just broken, it screwed me over a few times by not saving, thinking it had saved (and refusing to let me save again) and losing the file when I closed PS.

[glorybound]

I have been using it for awhile and I have no issues. I love the background save and I would love for 3DS MAX to have this.

[tricky]

I have been using it for awhile and I have no issues. I love the background save and I would love for 3DS MAX to have this.

We have many issues with Photoshop these days. The files we are working through are typically between 500GB and 1GB or so. Sometimes we have a few open at once (not ideal, but can't be opening/closing all the time). Photoshop used to be very stable up until 2 or 3 years ago.

Bobby - I'd rather just have 3dsmax with a reliable 'undo' command! They can't even get that right!

[squintnic]

hmm ill have to turn off that background save thing then. its pretty normal to have 3 or 4 PSDs open and 1gb files are pretty standard when working with 16bit - just never seemed to be unstable until CC! thanks for the pointers