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Transferring Trados Studio 2011 from an old PC to a new one

Sebastiano Massimo Giuseppe Barbagallo

Hello. I own a license for Trados Studio 2011 which is currently working on my PC and I would like to know whether I can use such license on a new PC (because my current PC has become old and slow) by transferring the hard disk containing Trados Studio 2011 from the old PC to the new one (both PC would have the same type of operating system). I already know that I am not allowed to deactivate my license on the old PC and activate it on the new PC, because Trados Studio 2011 is no longer supported, so the only option would be transferring the hard disk containing Trados Studio 2011 from the old PC to the new one. Do you think that such option would work or would I risk losing my license? Thank you for your answer.
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  • 0 in reply to Sebastiano Massimo Giuseppe Barbagallo

     

    If you just mean installing the HDD from your old PC in your new PC, this will never work. You will have files and folders there, but NO software installed on your old PC will ever work in your new PC. You will be able to access all files and folders, though, so your projects possibly existing there will be still accessible.

    You have to install all your software on your new PC anew. There is no way around it. And Windows does not have any migration tools from what I know.

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    Very risky.  You may be better to leave it running on the existing PC or explore upgrading to a supported version of Trados Studio to ensure smooth operation on newer hardware as Jerzy and Walter suggested.

    If you're looking for some sort of technical reason... and I cannot be 100% on this and can't test anyway since Flexnet has been completely decommissioned... but I think that FlexNet generates a unique hardware fingerprint based on components like your motherboard, CPU, and hard drive.  When you transfer your hard disk to a new machine, even if the operating system remains the same, the hardware changes will result in a different fingerprint.  FlexNet will detect this as a different machine and could treat it as a new activation request, which it cannot process without support.

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