A few weeks back I blasted my SNDX dongle for 8.0.3. I used the current Applications Manager that came with the 8.0.3 download. All went well and I went back to my 6.5.4 partition on my new SSD and it worked fine. A few days ago I found that for some reason I could not run my microsoft office on the SSD. I guess even though I carbon copy cloned to the new SSD there is something about Microsoft licensing that sees the PCIE SSD I installed as different from the SATA disks. I'll have to research that but for now I went back to my internal HD for Avid 6.5.4 for a project I'm working on now. I've found if I leave the Avie open and walk away for an extended inactive time I come back to an error message related to the License Activation is not longer valid. Restarting Avid and I get the prompt how do you want to license the Avid. I choose dongle and still get the Activation error.
The first time this happened I went to the applications manager and saw there is a more current application manager. I downloaded this and then I could launch Avid. I thought I had found the issue but then later I got the same error message after leaving the avid for a break. Restarting seems to correct the issue. I'm wondering because I have my energy preferences to allow drives to go to sleep that perhaps there is something about the new application manager architecture that has a problem when the start up drive spins down. I will have to experiment with this but I'm curious if anyone else has had something like this happen. I realized Avid likes to set the energy savings to never have drives sleep but I don't mind waiting for the drives to spin back up and I figure with all the interruptions working at home it saves a little power and wear and tear on the drives. I'm not basing this on any scientific fact just my gut so perhaps I'm just stupid not to keep the drives spinning all the time. Please let me know if I am wrong about the energy saving setting. Regardless of that I can't think of anything else that would cause the Avid to just decide it doesn't like my dongle license activation.
Also in the application manager when I go to the license tab I thought I would see my dongle listed there but it is blank now that I'm running off the internal SATA HD startup drive. IIRC when I blasted the dongle on my 8.0.3 partition I saw all my dongle info in the tab. Can anyone confirm that I should be seeing dongle info in the License Tab of the Application Manager? Perhaps the fact that it is blank is contributing to my activation error. If so then why does Avid launch and see the dongle at all? HMMMM
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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