How do I find which serial I used for Photoshop CS5 on my computer?

I want to move my Photoshop CS5 installation to a new computer.
Unfortunately, I lost the paper with the cd-key.

Is there a way to recover the serial from my local installation?

Gnoupi

Posted 2013-03-04T12:45:52.870

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Perhaps Help=>About? – terdon – 2013-03-04T12:47:36.033

@terdon - unfortunately, not. – Gnoupi – 2013-03-04T12:49:22.557

1If you logged in with your Adobe account when you first used the serial number, I believe it gets tied to your Adobe account and is retrievable through their website. (I'm not entirely sure though, this is how it worked for older CS versions at least). – Rain – 2013-03-14T02:01:01.823

@Rain - indeed, I can find it there. – Gnoupi – 2013-03-14T08:19:57.180

Answers

If you logged in with your Adobe account when you first used the serial number, I believe it gets tied to your Adobe account and is retrievable through their website.

Rain

Posted 2013-03-04T12:45:52.870

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Use a regedit reader specialized for license keys,for example :

LicenseCrawler (free, portable)

The Magical Jellybean Keyfinder (has free version)

Gjordis

Posted 2013-03-04T12:45:52.870

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LicenseCrawler did not find it in my case, but that Belarc Advisor worked – lucidbrot – 2016-11-27T12:35:24.090

This program can help also. http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

– Phillip R. – 2013-03-14T02:09:10.190

Go into system information under help in the photoshop application. A long list of things will come up stuff like your plug-ins ect.

Among that will be the serial number without the dashes - just put a dash every four numbers and that is your serial number that you used to install the program.

Howco

Posted 2013-03-04T12:45:52.870

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This only shows 5 blocks of 4 digits; Adobe CS5 uses a serial number with 6 blocks of 4 digits. – TylerH – 2019-10-28T18:49:48.283

The serial number in system info may get you only 5 blocks of 4 digits where the complete serial number may be 6 blocks of 4 digits. Belarc Advisor gets the comlete 6 blocks.

Neos727

Posted 2013-03-04T12:45:52.870

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A Mac option that worked for (my old but highly functional) Photoshop CS 5.1, just opened a terminal and ran

find /Library/Application\ Support/ -name 'regid*.swidtag' -exec cat {} \;

K. Kilian Lindberg

Posted 2013-03-04T12:45:52.870

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In any recent version of Adobe Photoshop:

Help > System Info...

Find the following strings there:

License Type: Subscription Volume License
Serial number: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

The last one is a serial number you find.

Neurotransmitter

Posted 2013-03-04T12:45:52.870

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