Good news to hear, David. It recalled to me when my Mac's motherboard stopped working (happened twice in 12 months and Apple changed them both times at no cost). I had to reactivate Finale after contacting the support office because It hadn't (obviously) been deactivated, and that took a while; I remember one of their first responses stating that the support team doesn't work on weekends (fair enough). Once reactivated I was constantly accompanied by the activation-request window opening every single time I launched Finale, and all that until the following upgrade was released.
Giovanni > On 25 Oct 2016, at 15:45, David H. Bailey > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had an emergency over the weekend which both proves and disproves > Dennis's worries. > > My motherboard and main hard-drive crashed so I lost my e-licenser and > had to reinstall it. That program is the one that Steinberg uses for > anti-piracy protection for all its programs. When I reinstalled the > e-licenser program it generated a new serial number for itself based on > my current motherboard (and not the hard drive). So I was up the > proverbial creek regarding using Dorico and any other Steinberg products > (I have WaveLab and Cubase Elements 8). > > I did submit a support case report to Steinberg yesterday morning but I > hadn't heard anything from them by this morning so I posted a "help" > message on the Dorico forum at steinberg.net. I got an instant reply > which asked whether I had tried the reactivation available through my > account at Steinberg. I hadn't, so I tried it. > > It took all of about 30 seconds to reactivate all my Steinberg products > on my computer with the new motherboard and new e-licenser installation, > once I knew what to do. I simply clicked the "reactivate" button next > to the appropriate product, entered the serial number from the new > e-licenser installation and immediately I had a new activation code I > could copy/paste into the e-licenser, then click the "get license" > button and the product was activated. > > It's taken me much longer to type this than it took to reactivate all > three software products. If I had known this, I could have been using > Dorico again Saturday evening once I had rebuilt my computer with the > new motherboard. > > All this is without the dongle, in software on this computer. And > should I want to move to another computer, I can simply install the > e-licenser there, get the new serial number and reactivate the software. > So it can be a back-and-forth process as often as I would like, since > activating a product in a new e-licenser installation de-activates it in > the old e-licenser installation. > > But since I only have one computer I'll be using Dorico on at the > moment, it's not an issue for me. Were I to have two computers which I > wanted to work with Dorico on I'd simply invest in the dongle and move > I had an emergency over the weekend which both proves and disproves > Dennis's worries. > > My motherboard and main hard-drive crashed so I lost my e-licenser and > had to reinstall it. That program is the one that Steinberg uses for > anti-piracy protection for all its programs. When I reinstalled the > e-licenser program it generated a new serial number for itself based on > my current motherboard (and not the hard drive). So I was up the > proverbial creek regarding using Dorico and any other Steinberg products > (I have WaveLab and Cubase Elements 8). > > I did submit a support case report to Steinberg yesterday morning but I > hadn't heard anything from them by this morning so I posted a "help" > message on the Dorico forum at steinberg.net. I got an instant reply > which asked whether I had tried the reactivation available through my > account at Steinberg. I hadn't, so I tried it. > > It took all of about 30 seconds to reactivate all my Steinberg products > on my computer with the new motherboard and new e-licenser installation, > once I knew what to do. I simply clicked the "reactivate" button next > to the appropriate product, entered the serial number from the new > e-licenser installation and immediately I had a new activation code I > could copy/paste into the e-licenser, then click the "get license" > button and the product was activated. > > It's taken me much longer to type this than it took to reactivate all > three software products. If I had known this, I could have been using > Dorico again Saturday evening once I had rebuilt my computer with the > new motherboard. > > All this is without the dongle, in software on this computer. And > should I want to move to another computer, I can simply install the > e-licenser there, get the new serial number and reactivate the software. > So it can be a back-and-forth process as often as I would like, since > activating a product in a new e-licenser installation de-activates it in > the old e-licenser installation. > > But since I only have one computer I'll be using Dorico on at the > moment, it's not an issue for me. Were I to have two computers which I > wanted to work with Dorico on I'd simply invest in the dongle and move > that between the computers. > > Now all I'm left with from the disaster is trying to get my ewql > libraries reactivated. That, I'm afraid, seems as if it will take a lot > longer (if ever). But since this is the first computer I've had that > could actually make good use of these ewql libraries, I don't have any > projects which rely on them so if it takes a while it's no big deal. > > It was very easy getting a new activation from both Sibelius and Finale > so I can continue to use them on my laptop as well as my new desktop. > > So the software protection aspect of Dorico really isn't a big deal. > > David H. Bailey > > > >> On 10/22/2016 7:58 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >> Just a warning that Dorico uses Steinberg's awful protection system: either a >> hardware dongle or a dongle-free download option that allows only one >> install. >> >> I will never put my work into the hands of this kind of system. I've watched >> others with dongles see deadlines pass waiting for a replacement for a failed >> dongle. And even the dongle-free system, without a second install, means any >> failure that requires using a backup computer is impossible. >> >> I know some people have accepted this kind of corporate control of their >> work, >> but I'm not one of them. I've campaigned against this nonsense for years. I'm >> sorry Dorico is infected with it, because it appears that otherwise I'd try >> using it. >> >> I'll stay with Finale's dongle-free, two-computer authorization. >> >> Dennis >> >> Two of my old pieces on protection: >> 2003: <http://maltedmedia.com/books/papers/sm-copyp.html> >> 1997: <http://maltedmedia.com/books/papers/s8-music.html> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> [email protected] >> > > > -- > David H. 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