Computer died and i might hang myself due to a new hardware ID invalidating Ilok Authorizations

[Googly Smythe]

Yeah ilok won't help with those licenses. It's always on the developers to fix it. Even with their zero downtime thing. That only provides you with temporary licenses until the developers get you sorted.

On a side note, evidently not using dongles is dumb for your purpose.

do not ask me about stolen dongle, broken dongle, lost dongle when traveling with laptop. thanks cheers ok bye.

Dongles on anything but an immoveable desktop machine in a quiet corner of the studio truly do not make sense. I used to have a laptop and continually worried about the eLicenser sticking out - even with an extension. Now I have a desktop with monitor that has a buit-in hub with an eLicencer, iLok and usb memory stick (for Waves and Plugin Alliance stuff) plugged in and nicely out of harm's way. Which is why, if you have to have a licence, serial numbers, keyfiles or u-He's method are best.
Sorry, back to topic.

[Robert Randolph]

Yeah ilok won't help with those licenses. It's always on the developers to fix it. Even with their zero downtime thing. That only provides you with temporary licenses until the developers get you sorted.

On a side note, evidently not using dongles is dumb for your purpose.

see bold text in first post. read it twice to comprehend it and realize it's not a discussion anyone wants to have

do not ask me about stolen dongle, broken dongle, lost dongle when traveling with laptop. thanks cheers ok bye.

what would've been ideal is to just be able to drag the licenses from one mac to another mac within the licenser auth. but perhaps that's too simple and easy to exploit by the many people living in the ethical grey area? idk. whatever. the licenses get "trapped" and are there now screaming "omg save me from this logic board"

edit: gotta say.. it's a strange loop between the devs and iLok. devs end up fixing iLok problems and providing support for a copy protection scheme that they pay to use... but it's probably less of a PITA than i imagine.

You should look in to ZDT.

[dayjob]

You should look in to ZDT.

hilarious!

[aMUSEd]

Is that the notorious MBP graphics chip problem?

Didn't know there was a 'notorious' problem? Since my MacMini was affected the same way does it have the same graphics chip as the MBP? I would be surprised if it did tbh.

for the MBP yes.. 2011 models.. they actually expanded/extended the repair program. the apple repair site that has serial # look up is wrong. it told me i wasn't covered but the apple store guy said i was covered. glad i was because it was a $600 repair.

it's too bad i didn't know it was coming because i could've switched to ilok dongle based copy protection in anticipation. but so far i'm not able to see the future.

Yeah, mine were on dongle tbh but I didn't say that earlier because given what you said in bold I didn't want to crow about it but it certainly did help me - I have over 50 licenses on it so it would have been a nightmare to get them reauthorized otherwise (especially things like GRM Tools I suspect).

[Robert Randolph]

Yeah ilok won't help with those licenses. It's always on the developers to fix it. Even with their zero downtime thing. That only provides you with temporary licenses until the developers get you sorted.

On a side note, evidently not using dongles is dumb for your purpose.

do not ask me about stolen dongle, broken dongle, lost dongle when traveling with laptop. thanks cheers ok bye.

Dongles on anything but an immoveable desktop machine in a quiet corner of the studio truly do not make sense. I used to have a laptop and continually worried about the eLicenser sticking out - even with an extension. Now I have a desktop with monitor that has a buit-in hub with an eLicencer, iLok and usb memory stick (for Waves and Plugin Alliance stuff) plugged in and nicely out of harm's way. Which is why, if you have to have a licence, serial numbers, keyfiles or u-He's method are best.
Sorry, back to topic.

I just use something like this (that I made myself) http://www.angledcables.com/parts/rr-alaf-xxgr.html

No worries. Low-profile. Nothing sticking out and it makes it easy to move the dongle between systems. You can just use some stick-on velcro on your dongle and the back of your laptop to keep it out of the way.

I used 3 dongles on my very mobile laptop based system with no issues at all, even despite dropping the damn thing a few times right on the USB side.