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choomaque · Post by **choomaque** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:02 am

martinjuenke wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 10:09 am
Fake news.

that is literally how I lost 2 licenses

choomaque · Post by **choomaque** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:05 am

_leras wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 9:41 am Then just keep the license on a dongle

They don't ship the dongle to the place I lived at the time when I was about to order it.

_leras wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 9:41 am There are far worse licensing systems out there.

hard to believe

sQeetz · Post by **sQeetz** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:06 am

choomaque wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:01 am
Gamma-UT wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 8:44 am Informing people that deactivating iLok licences before doing any disk surgery or selling a machine entirely sounds like reasonable to me.
sounds like extra hassle to me, which, again, plugin manufacturers that don't use iLok, don't have

Well, other plugin manufacturers have a limited amount of machines you can have activated. And if you want to sell a machine you still have to deactivate the machine on your account on their website. Not too different in my book.

choomaque · Post by **choomaque** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:11 am

sQeetz wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:06 am Well, other plugin manufacturers have a limited amount of machines you can have activated.

Yes and more often than not, you just log in with your creds from a new machine and deactivate the license from the old machine. No dongles needed.

Harry_HH · Post by **Harry_HH** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:47 am

Worked fine last years (Win/Live).

mgw38 · Post by **mgw38** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:56 am

Related question. I usually have my licenses on a physical USB dongle on my desktop and on the iLok cloud for my laptop to avoid machine activations. Worked fine in the past. However a few months ago my desktop started to automatically force-open the iLok cloud session as well, which is annoying because whenever I now open anything on my laptop I always have to first close the iLok cloud session on my desktop. I tried all the usual things but the behavior persists. Anybody know what software could cause that behavior on my desktop? UA Connect? Avid Link? …

t.o.t.s. · Post by **t.o.t.s.** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:08 pm

you can deactivate the automatic opening of cloud licenses in the ilok app.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:27 pm

choomaque wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:14 am No. They do prevent people from moving licenses.
For absolute majority of plugin developers that don't use iLok, having access to account = having access to licenses.

Saynig they're the same thing doesnt make them the same thing.

To use your own logic, the absolute majority of plugin developers 'stop you from moving licenses' because not having access to account = not having access to license.

iLok disagrees and blocks you from your licenses activated on the same account but on other machine. If you sold the machine - you lost the license forever. That's pain in the arse.

Its a pain in the arse, but its your responsibility.

mgw38 · Post by **mgw38** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:27 pm

t.o.t.s. wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:08 pm you can deactivate the automatic opening of cloud licenses in the ilok app.

Yeah, that did not work…

martinjuenke · Post by **martinjuenke** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:33 pm

choomaque wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:02 am
martinjuenke wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 10:09 am
Fake news.

that is literally how I lost 2 licenses

User error.
Don't waste our time anymore please.

Gamma-UT · Post by **Gamma-UT** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:03 pm

mgw38 wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:56 am Related question. I usually have my licenses on a physical USB dongle on my desktop and on the iLok cloud for my laptop to avoid machine activations. Worked fine in the past. However a few months ago my desktop started to automatically force-open the iLok cloud session as well, which is annoying because whenever I now open anything on my laptop I always have to first close the iLok cloud session on my desktop. I tried all the usual things but the behavior persists. Anybody know what software could cause that behavior on my desktop? UA Connect? Avid Link? …

Do you have any Softube plugins? The installer has a nasty habit of popping licences onto the cloud so the plugins wind up using those.

Alexander_D · Post by **Alexander_D** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:11 pm

I was so many years without Ilok and all was great. But some sweet plugins like Soothe or Soundtoys use this system... so, I have no choice and install Ilok system. It's ok. It's better to use it and have the great plug-ins on the board... so many companies now on this system....

DCrown · Post by **DCrown** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:13 pm

ILok works fine here no spikes or cpu issues, I can start iLok License Manager prett, quality, also gui is very fine

martinjuenke · Post by **martinjuenke** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:23 pm

This topic is so dead, it does not even smell funny anymore.

t.o.t.s. · Post by **t.o.t.s.** » Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:41 pm

speaking is pains in the ass… that softube installer is annoying when it does that.

Gamma-UT wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:03 pm
mgw38 wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:56 am Related question. I usually have my licenses on a physical USB dongle on my desktop and on the iLok cloud for my laptop to avoid machine activations. Worked fine in the past. However a few months ago my desktop started to automatically force-open the iLok cloud session as well, which is annoying because whenever I now open anything on my laptop I always have to first close the iLok cloud session on my desktop. I tried all the usual things but the behavior persists. Anybody know what software could cause that behavior on my desktop? UA Connect? Avid Link? …
Do you have any Softube plugins? The installer has a nasty habit of popping licences onto the cloud so the plugins wind up using those.

Thoughts on Ilok?