Vsts to deauthorize before formatting?

[arkmabat]

Hello, so I'm formatting my old laptop to give to my younger brother. It has many of my plugins installed and it seems like a few could get stuck in activation hell if I were to wipe my drive without deauthorizing them. If any plugins like this come to mind please let me know! Thanks.

[chk071]

Would probably be easier if you listed the plugins you have installed on the laptop.

[arkmabat]

Damn it's a lot.

NI
Korg
Waves
Ohm

Those are my biggest concerns

[arkmabat]

I mean, the companies will probably be kind if I get stuck and can't activate though. I might be overly paranoid about this! I did a format a few years back and can't remember if I deregistered anything or not

[arkmabat]

https://forum.reasontalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=7501466

Ah looks like Waves might be the one I had in mind

[cron]

Anything involving on-disk iLok and eLicenser are the obvious ones that spring to mind. Waves stuff might be worth taking preemptive action with too. I had Waves authorisations break over seemingly nothing (e.g. installing another Waves product), so I decided they weren't worth the hassle and wrote off the comparatively small sum I'd invested in their ecosystem ($50 or so.)

I've never had issues with anything else C/R based. Even FXpansion (the only other company I use with their own 'license manager' style software) plugs authorised just fine on my new machine when my laptop unexpectedly died.

[jancivil]

NI you won't have to worry about. Once upon a time you could do three auths and then you'd manually delete something via your account. That's ancient history. I have authorized certain of mine countless times, there is no particular anything in the way.

[UltimateOutsider]

The current generation of Arturia products can be de-authorized from the Arturia Software Center before you reformat.

EDIT: Also, like someone else mentioned, if you ever used the option to install your Waves/iLok/eLicenser options on your PC instead of on a USB key, you MUST transfer those licenses back to the cloud before reformatting. Not an issue if you use dongles for everything.

[arkmabat]

Yes! Okay Waves is definitely the reason I made this post come to think of it. I need to send those licences back to the cloud. I'm so glad I waited to format the drive

[chk071]

Damn it's a lot.

NI
Korg
Waves
Ohm

Those are my biggest concerns

OK. NI = no problem. KORG = should be no problem, should prompt to re-authorize on the new computer. Waves = no idea. Ohm = no idea.

If you have iLok licenses, as has been mentioned, de-authorize before formatting. And, if you have an eLicenser, make sure those licenses are on a dongle. Apart from that, i don't think there's too much need to worry. I already done all that, and, there were very few plugins i had to take care.

[mgw38]

Waves is generally no issue at all (you should move the licenses back to the license cloud though) with the one exception of the Waves NX standalone app. They allow 3 authorizations with no possibilities to de-authorize a machine. If you migrate multiple times you eventually have to purchase a new license for the app. I am not kidding, got into a fight with Waves support about that one. The app is only 10 bucks though. I eventually decided that it made no sense to spend all that effort in trying to convince them that they are acting stupid.