"Your Product Activation Key Reached Its Activation Limit..."

I'm having the same problem. I have changed laptops and would like to be able to use Parallels Desktop on my new laptop. The old laptop was wiped before I sold it, but there was no way to deactivate the software on the old machine.
 
DanielleG said:
I'm having the same problem. I have changed laptops and would like to be able to use Parallels Desktop on my new laptop. The old laptop was wiped before I sold it, but there was no way to deactivate the software on the old machine.
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Hi DanielleG,

Please check your Private messages.
 
Does anyone know the answer to this problem? I just got my iMac back with a new drive and parallels says I've reached my activation limit.
 
As (unfortunately) anticipated, my MacBook failed to boot last week, so no chance to relinquish the license. So I took it to Apple, they fixed it, and in the meantime I did a restore from TimeMachine to the loaner machine, which never asked for a license, so I didn't think to relinquish that one. Now I have my machine back, the loaner has been wiped, and my machine won't run because I have reached the activation limit. Hoping someone from Parallels can get back to me soon, because I desperately need to catch up on some work tonight.

Thanks!
Gordon
 
PragmaticPraxis said:
As (unfortunately) anticipated, my MacBook failed to boot last week, so no chance to relinquish the license. So I took it to Apple, they fixed it, and in the meantime I did a restore from TimeMachine to the loaner machine, which never asked for a license, so I didn't think to relinquish that one. Now I have my machine back, the loaner has been wiped, and my machine won't run because I have reached the activation limit. Hoping someone from Parallels can get back to me soon, because I desperately need to catch up on some work tonight.

Thanks!
Gordon
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Hi Gordon,

Please check your private message.
 
Ram,
I am curious if you got my two PMs. Because the PM interface claims that I have no sent messages, even after sending three, to to you and one to Maheeshwar.

Thanks,
Gordon
 
I have a new Mac and followed the instructions to remove Parallels from my old machine, I'm now getting the over the limit comment as well. Can I get a reset please.

DS
 
Maheeshwar@Parallels said:
Hello DaleSpy,

Please check your private message.
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Chalk me up as another user with the same problem of running into an activation limit. I've migrated to a new machine after the old one has been put to pasture. I'm pretty sure I have two full licenses that are no longer accessible. I need a reset of I'm sorry to say my long history with Parallels is over and I'm headed to VMware where their license agreements are more friendly especially to developer / QA testers like myself. This problem by the way was never a problem in the past and if is now activations are going to run in the future it's nothing but a huge hassle for legitimate users who are not trying to game the system and are just in need of a simple reinstall for whatever reason (s

M~
 
ToBeLikeTree said:
Chalk me up as another user with the same problem of running into an activation limit. I've migrated to a new machine after the old one has been put to pasture. I'm pretty sure I have two full licenses that are no longer accessible. I need a reset of I'm sorry to say my long history with Parallels is over and I'm headed to VMware where their license agreements are more friendly especially to developer / QA testers like myself. This problem by the way was never a problem in the past and if is now activations are going to run in the future it's nothing but a huge hassle for legitimate users who are not trying to game the system and are just in need of a simple reinstall for whatever reason (s

M~
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Hello ToBeLikeTree,

Please check your private message.
 
I'm having the same problem. I have changed laptops and would like to be able to use Parallels Desktop on my new laptop. The old laptop was died totally, there was no way to deactivate the software on the old machine.
 
Shan Huang said:
I'm having the same problem. I have changed laptops and would like to be able to use Parallels Desktop on my new laptop. The old laptop was died totally, there was no way to deactivate the software on the old machine.
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Hello Shan Huang,

Please check your private message.
 
Hello,
I have the exact same problem.
I usually reinstall all my system when an update of OSX is released, and I have to uninstall parallels to try to solve some troubles with my virtual machine (and when I canot update without unsitalling all files...)

Thanks for your help.
Pierrick
 
Hi

I had an activated working installation of Parallels 9 in my old late 2010 MacBook Air - bought the license in September last year.
I uninstalled Parallels 9 in the MBA and actually wiped the disk. Replaced MBA with a MBPr last weekend and now when installing Parallels 9 in MBPr I get the error message that I have reached the activation limit of my license.
Can you assist please ASAP - it is my working laptop. I can provide the activation key and previous product ID (from the MBA activated working installation) on a private message.

Cheers,
David
 
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