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Protection key

Anonymous
Not applicable
When I lounch ArhiCAD it's writing that it can't found protection key. Where do I have to look for it?
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Dwight
Newcomer
ArchiCAD licenses are protected by a key that usually plugs in to a USB socket.

The key looks like a flash memory module.

Sometimes, to fix the problem, you just jiggle your key, and sometimes, you need to update your key software driver.

The site for this is

http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/downloads/WIBU.html
Dwight Atkinson
Djordje
Ace
Sometimes, you should also buy an ArchiCAD license, so that you get your protection key ...
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
Dwight
Newcomer
That's not fair: incompetence before malice.
Dwight Atkinson
Djordje
Ace
Dwight wrote:
That's not fair: incompetence before malice.
Life never is
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
TomWaltz
Participant
Djordje wrote:
Dwight wrote:
That's not fair: incompetence before malice.
Life never is
Life may be fair, but it is almost ALWAYS incompetence before malice.

Nothing is "fool proof" due to the high quality of fools. The bext we can hope for is "fool resistant."
Tom Waltz
Djordje
Ace
TomWaltz wrote:
Nothing is "fool proof" due to the high quality of fools. The bext we can hope for is "fool resistant."
To quote Murphy's Law:

If something is idiot proof, not even an idiot will use it.
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
Anonymous
Not applicable
Did you know Murphy's Law wasn't actually written by Murphy? It was someone else with the same name.

Djordje
Ace
s2art wrote:
Did you know Murphy's Law wasn't actually written by Murphy? It was someone else with the same name.

Yep The books are not written by the actual author(s), they are compilations.

Yet, I find most of it true daily 😉
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen