Ver 1.8.6 license activation

[danoid]

Could this have been made any more a pain?  Seriously - email links (assuming we have email on all computers - bad assumption) valid only for one hour with second email code valid only once.  Need to repeat for different machines.

A lot of monkeying around for no benefit to the user.

[msmythers]

This happened earlier this which unfortunately is want has prompted changes in the installation.

https://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=12389.msg75831#msg75831



Mike

[pfile]

you really only have to do the email process once - after the new license file has been created you can copy it to your other machines.

[danoid]

you really only have to do the email process once - after the new license file has been created you can copy it to your other machines.

I thought of that, but my license file on the laptop had a date of 11-08-13.  So I figured either I was looking at the wrong file, or that file didn't matter any more and it had to be online, single use.  Just like the directions said.

It's a shame that the legal users have to go through this double email process. My imaging laptops don't have email.  So the codes are transported back and forth via thumb drive.

[pfile]

there is a new location for the license file. you were looking at the old one... i think juan outlined all of this in the announcement thread. you should be able to copy the file - i dont see anywhere in his announcement that you have to go thru the activation process for each computer separately.

https://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=12986.0

License files are now generated in more discrete and secure locations on all platforms:

- On Linux and FreeBSD, on a $HOME/.PixInsight hidden directory.

- On macOS, on $HOME/Library/PixInsight

- On Windows, on %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Pleiades

Previously license files were generated directly on the user's home directory. For many years I have been receiving complaints about this because of obvious security and privacy concerns, which I have tried to address in this version.

rob

[Niall Saunders]

Could this have been made any more a pain?  Seriously - email links (assuming we have email on all computers - bad assumption) valid only for one hour with second email code valid only once.  Need to repeat for different machines.

A lot of monkeying around for no benefit to the user.

Well, I suppose you will always get some folk  who believe that "monkeying around" is of no benefit to the user - but they will fail to appreciate that this monkeying around had to be invoked in direct response to the scumbags who were breaking down they very barriers put in place to protect legitimate users - by making PixInsight the only software that I am aware of that has never stopped growing, exponentially, yet has maintained the very first price that it was released with. Software that, even without email on all machines, can still be ligitimately used on all machines, and nearly all OS environments, that a user has a need to install the software on.

But, hey, if it doesn't suit a user they will usually find that Juan can be quite amenable to refunding the monkeynuts invested in the product.

Just slow down, re-read all of the instructions, and try again. And, if all else fails come back to the Forum and tell us what you have tried and where you think the process has failed.

Just try and remember, all of Juan's "monkeying around" is his best efforts to give you one of the single, most amazing, software packages ever developed. He has been forced to implement these new hoops that we all have to jump through as a protection against all of our intestments in PixInsight.

Give him a chance 

[chris.bailey]

The last time I needed to activate PI was 2013. The email address I used 5 years ago was also no longer valid necessitating a change of email address email request which was actioned by the PI Team in a matter of minutes so to spend a few minutes doing it once every five years does not seem to much of a hardship. I have far more issues with other software.

ps as a Mac user there was huge benefit in this update for the fixes to this alone.