The other day my MacBook Pro strangely stopped booting. No worries, I just restored from a backup and all was well… That is until I tried to use Dreamweaver CS4, when I was greeted by this lovely visage:
“
Licensing for this product has stopped working."
Oh really? That’s wonderful, thanks Adobe.
Now the instructions I’m going to give you can be found on Adobe’s website, but I had a heck of a time trying to find them, hopefully this will make things easier for you if you run into this error.
The solution is actually pretty straight forward:
- Using Finder, navigate to /Library/Preferences/FLEXnet Publisher/FLEXnet.
- Control+Click on the FLEXnet folder, and then select Get Info.
- Expand the Sharing & Permissions section.
- Click on the Details option to show the various owner and group options.
- Click the lock icon in the lower right corner. Type in your administrator username and password when prompted and click OK.
- Change your username to have Read & Write permissions.
- Change admin to have Read & Write permissions.
- Change Everyone to have Read & Write permissions.
- Click the Gear icon and select Apply To Enclosed Item. (all those steps can be found on Adobe’s site http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405970.html)
But you MUST delete adobe_00080000_tsf.data and adobe_00080000_event.log.
After that:
10. Close the FLEXnet Info dialog box.
11. Launch any of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product.