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Hi, I had purshased one licenses for each, flex builder 3 standard as well as flex builder professional. First, I installed flex builder 3 standard and entered the license key, it worked. As it was standard charting library has 'flex trial' water mark. Then I tried to uninstall flex builder 3 standard and install flex builder 3 professional again on 'same machine'. But here I faced the real problem, as soon as I run the exe, the license key automatically gets copied from windows registry file and it behaves as standard edition. Then I tried to use 'manage flex license' option and use 'upgrade to professional' option. Now as my key is for 'Flex 3 professional' and not 'upgrade to Flex 3 professional' it does not accept as valid key. I have few softwares which restrict me from reformatting my system

What should I do now? Please help.

Thanks in advance.

+1  A: 

that sounds like something you might want to hit up Adobe support for perhaps?

JStriedl
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Hi Ashine,

I am also facing the same problem. Do someone has some light on this issue??

Regards, PK

Anoop
Hi PK,As I have already written above the solution to this problem is very simple and it lies with 'license.properties' file. we simply need to erase the older license information from this file so that we can use the latest license for Flex Builder. We can simply delete the file. Don't worry about this file it generates again when you giove the new license ley. Ss soon as you will try to run the Flexbuilder again it will prompt to enter the thxt field on the screen and you just need to enter the key and start working.
Ashine
Great work ashine.. it worked for me.. i was struggling with this issue for a quite some time. Unfortunately i cant vote more than once... :)
Anoop
Thanks for compliment Anoop.I am glad I can be of some help to you.Wishes,Ashine.
Ashine
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Thanks JStriedl. As you rightly said, the adobe only has the solution to this problem. I got an opportunity to talk to Matt Chotin and he has sorted this out.

There's a 'license.properties' file that contains this license info. Generally its in 'C:PreogramFiles/Adobe/Flex'. You simply need to delete this file. On restarting Flex Builder you can give the desired license file and lo, that workds :)

Please let me know, if any one still face any issue in this regard. I will try to help.

Ashine
In Windows 7, I found the license.properties files with the license key in C:/ProgramData/Adobe/Flex
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