Our Elements 7 Just Got an Expiration Notice and Quit Workin

I have no idea why this happened.

Yesterday, I installed our new Elements 12 on the second computer and had to sign in to our Adobe account and license it.

I never thought, nor even ever imagined, that this would have any effect on our Elements 7 that had been running flawlessly for ages.

Then today, my wife let me know that "something is wrong with Elements"; we both very much prefer Elements 7 and so far have only ever used E12 for the things that E7 cannot do.

There was a pop-up notice that said something to the effect of "license for this product has expired; you must uninstall the program and reinstall to continue"

When I X-ed away the notice, the Elements 7 screen went away and no trick I tried would open either the organizer or the editor.

I finally gave up trying, unplugged the internet connection, then uninstalled and reinstalled Elements 7.

Now I am faced with hours of reinstalling all of our many plugins.


If I ever see another sign-in notice from Adobe, I am going to ignore it.


Has anyone else ever had this to happen ?

Do you guys think it happened as a result of me licensing E12 ?

Thanks for reading.