lost serial number

I have an old Painter 4 Mac program and had upgraded to version 6. My 
computer crashed and I replaced it. I still have the upgrade serial 
number but I cannot find the original version 4 serial number and it 
requires both to install it. Since MetaCreations is no longer around and 
Corel doesn't want to have anything to do with older versions; does 
anyone have any idea how I can solve this? Many companies have your 
registration in their computers and you can get help when you lose the 
serial number but MetaCreations is long gone.

Any suggestions?

Ron scribner
ronscr@aol.com

Contact Corel. I believe they carried over registration information for 
people who had Metacreations/Fractal Design Painter before Corel bought 
Painter.

By the way, I was not able to run Painter 4 on my newer computer, 
purchased about 3 years ago, (WinXP Home SP1), though I can run Painter 
5, 6, 7, 8, IX, and X on the same computer.

Good luck!

Jinny Brown
New Content at PixelAlley
http://www.pixelalley.com
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Scrib wrote:
> 
> I have an old Painter 4 Mac program and had upgraded to version 6. My 
> computer crashed and I replaced it. I still have the upgrade serial 
> number but I cannot find the original version 4 serial number and it 
> requires both to install it. Since MetaCreations is no longer around and 
> Corel doesn't want to have anything to do with older versions; does 
> anyone have any idea how I can solve this? Many companies have your 
> registration in their computers and you can get help when you lose the 
> serial number but MetaCreations is long gone.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Ron scribner
> ronscr@aol.com
> 

Thanks for the suggestion but Corel sent me here. They don't support 
"legacy products" in fact hardly anything back more than 2 versions.

I had hoped they would have access to MetaCreations Fractal Designs old 
customer base.

Luckily I use Macs which are good about supporting older versions. My 
problem is I have my upgrade V.6 and it's serial number. And my version 
4 disk. But I can't find the old manual which is where I used to write 
serial numbers. Pretty dumb. Next time I write it on the install disk.

Does anyone else have a suggestion?




Jinny Brown wrote:

> 
> Contact Corel. I believe they carried over registration information for 
> people who had Metacreations/Fractal Design Painter before Corel bought 
> Painter.
> 
> By the way, I was not able to run Painter 4 on my newer computer, 
> purchased about 3 years ago, (WinXP Home SP1), though I can run Painter 
> 5, 6, 7, 8, IX, and X on the same computer.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Jinny Brown
> New Content at PixelAlley
> http://www.pixelalley.com
> _____________________
> 
> Scrib wrote:
> 
>>
>> I have an old Painter 4 Mac program and had upgraded to version 6. My 
>> computer crashed and I replaced it. I still have the upgrade serial 
>> number but I cannot find the original version 4 serial number and it 
>> requires both to install it. Since MetaCreations is no longer around 
>> and Corel doesn't want to have anything to do with older versions; 
>> does anyone have any idea how I can solve this? Many companies have 
>> your registration in their computers and you can get help when you 
>> lose the serial number but MetaCreations is long gone.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Ron scribner
>> ronscr@aol.com
>>
> 

"Scrib" <RonScr@aol.com> wrote in message
news:4692f822$1_3@cnews...
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion but Corel sent me here. They don't support 
> "legacy products" in fact hardly anything back more than 2
versions.
> 
> I had hoped they would have access to MetaCreations Fractal Designs old 
> customer base.
> 
> Luckily I use Macs which are good about supporting older versions. My 
> problem is I have my upgrade V.6 and it's serial number. And my version 
> 4 disk. But I can't find the old manual which is where I used to write 
> serial numbers. Pretty dumb. Next time I write it on the install disk.
> 
> Does anyone else have a suggestion?

Would it work to just upgrade again to the latest version?

I use P6 and it's pretty slow and wonky compared to the newer ones.