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Originally Posted by braindump
When adding a license, I'm prompted for the license type (computer or personal). The license I purchased did not make this distinction. Is there a functional difference between these two license types?
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This just determines where the license is installed, which in turn controls which user accounts will see the license.
If you install it as a personal license, it gets stored in your user account, so other user accounts won't see and try to use it.
If you install it as a computer license, it gets stored in a shared location, so all user accounts on the computer can find that license and attempt to use it.
Personal licenses are used in preference to Computer licenses, so that person A with a personal license for OmniFocus will use that one, instead of claiming the shared license and thus potentially preventing use by someone who doesn't have a personal license but who could have otherwise used the shared license. This mostly comes in to play with Network licenses, such as at a company with many client computers - if your network is configured in a specific way, you can put the license in a particular place on the network such that client computers will find that network license, rather than forcing you to control licenses installed on a bunch of separate client computers.
-andrew