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Offline Juan Conejero

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Re: PixInsight 1.8.8 Released
« Reply #45 on: 2019 November 18 11:14:01 »
This error message says that you already have a valid trial license, associated with the email address you have specified. You don't have to request a new license, just new license activation codes.
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Re: PixInsight 1.8.8 Released
« Reply #46 on: 2019 November 18 12:06:38 »
I did as you suggested. requested new activation codes and recieved them.  Erased PI and downloaded latest version again. Lanched PI and got the same error message as before.
Authentication error. Server response: 'INVALID AUTHORIZATION CODE' . PI did the uninstall. Did that erase the lic file? if not wherre is is located? All directories and sub directorise associated with PI were gone after the uninstall. Thanks for your help....r

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Re: PixInsight 1.8.8 Released
« Reply #47 on: 2019 November 18 12:34:24 »
the license file location is described in the FAQ:

http://pixinsight.com/faq/#faq0207

might be worth reading thru some of the other faqs in section 2 as well.

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Re: PixInsight 1.8.8 Released
« Reply #48 on: 2019 November 18 12:37:25 »
What a mess! :)

Your license file has probably been damaged, or it has lost synchronization with our licensing server. As Rob says, FAQ 2.7 tells you where it is. See also FAQ 2.23 to remove it manually. Then see FAQ 2.10 to request new activation codes, in case you haven't already done so:

https://pixinsight.com/faq/
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Re: PixInsight 1.8.8 Released
« Reply #49 on: 2019 November 18 13:25:30 »
Thank you very much Juan and Rob for your help. I will spend some quality time in FAQ. I found the lic file, deleted it restarted PI entered new access info and I'm up and running again.
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Re: PixInsight 1.8.8 Released
« Reply #50 on: 2019 November 22 11:50:44 »
I have serious issues with the new preview that have rendered my use of MMT almost useless. My procedure was to set all layers adaptive very high (2+) to start EXCEPT layer one, which I set to zero thereby showing all the noise on that layer. I would then highlight the adaptive box and use the arrow key to increase it to taste on layer #1. I would then move to the next layer, etc. and repeat with each layer. This optimized each layer in turn.

When I try that now, it fails to update the changes on the preview. If I use the slider instead of the arrow key, sometimes it updates, sometimes not. VERY frustrating - I will have to uninstall and go back to the old version as this is one of my main uses.

UPDATE:  OK, not sure why this is the case but it seems only to do this if I do the RT preview  on a full image. If I do it on a small preview, it works fine. I guess I have never used it on a full image before but this was a highly cropped image (as small as most previews) so kinda expected it to work...
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Re: PixInsight 1.8.8 Released
« Reply #51 on: 2019 November 27 19:24:50 »
Hi Team,

I am running PI 1.8.6.1475 on Windows 10. Am I better off uninstalling the old version first before installing 1.8.8 or is it ok to simply download and install?

Cheers,
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Re: PixInsight 1.8.8 Released
« Reply #52 on: 2019 November 28 02:28:36 »
Hi Rodney,

On Windows, *always* uninstall the version you have installed before installing a new version of PixInsight. See section 3 of our FAQ.
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Re: PixInsight 1.8.8 Released
« Reply #53 on: 2019 November 28 04:43:01 »
Hi Rodney,

On Windows, *always* uninstall the version you have installed before installing a new version of PixInsight. See section 3 of our FAQ.

Many thanks Juan, will do.