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Moving a license using removeable media |
  
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Moving a license using removeable media |
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If you are upgrading or wish to use the software on another PC you will need to move your license from the installed PC to a storage medium, which could be a USB flash drive, a floppy disk, a LAN Server, intranet mapped drives, portable hard drives or Zip type drives. Then you install Orca3D on the new PC and transfer the stored license to that PC. At that point the original PC will no longer be licensed.
It is important to follow these steps closely, in the order given below. Also, you MUST be running the same version of Orca3D on both computers. Otherwise, the transfer will fail and you will lose your license.
To manually move your license:
| • | Install Orca3D on your new PC; this will also install the License Manager Program |
| • | Run License Manager on your new computer. The License Manager Utility may be started from the Orca3D menu in Rhino, or by clicking on the Windows START button, then selecting the License Manager from the Orca3D menu. |
| • | Insert the drive media in the applicable drive and note the drive letter. |
| • | Select the drive letter with your media in it by clicking the Browse button. |
| • | The prompt box will display your PC drives. (as above) |
| • | Click on Initialize Media for License Transfer to the media. |
Then go back to the original PC:
| • | Run License Manager on the computer which already contains the license. |
| • | If your media is removable (USB flash drive, etc.), install it on the original computer. |
| • | Select the drive letter of your Initialized media by clicking the Browse button. |
| • | Click on Move To Media button (as below) |
Then go back to the new PC:
| • | Insert the media into the new computer and select the media drive by clicking the Browse button. |
| • | Click on the Move from Media button. |
You are finished. Orca3D is now licensed on your new computer. If the status does not read "Unlimited License," close the License Manager and re-start it to refresh the status.
Another way to move your License from PC to PC is to return it to the Web Activation Server and then activate it on the new computer later.