Wang Kai

This is for those who needs to use “Phone Activation” option to re-activate your Adobe Acrobat 8.0 product.

If you install the Acrobat 8.0 (Pro/3D) for the first time, you would be lead to the “normal” type of activation. If you however, happen to uninstall the Acrobat 8.0 but try to reinstall it again, you would probably find the activation interface results in the “repair” mode, where your original activation key doesn’t work any more.

How to get rid of this “repair” mode and kick in the original phone activation interface? Well, here is the only thing you need to do:

For Windows XP user: delete C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\FLEXnet\adobe_00080000_xxx.data

For Windows Vista user: delete C:\ProgramData\FLEXnet\adobe_00080000_xxx.data

For Mac user: delete content under /Library/Preferences/FLEXnet Publisher

That’s all. The “normal” activation mode should be back.