Activation Manager - removing not-used products

Hi - I miss the functionality to be able to remove Expired products I had owned in the past but I will not use anymore.

Would this be possible in any furute SAM update or do I miss anything so this action can be performed today (and I just did not find how and where)?

Thanx for answer, Pavel

Why do you want to remove licences you own?
The manager is your bank of licences. You can hide them from view by deactivate them and clicking the ‘activated’ button on the left side, if they anoise you. Then you’ll see only activated programs.

Yes - of course, this is one way. My question was aimed to have the possibility of some “cleaning” of the main page content, but maybe this is only my point of view :smiley:

I just simply do not care about products I owned in the past and are/will not be valid any longer.

P.

Because you don’t own some of them and they just make the list harder to read.

I have an expired HALion 7 trial license sitting there for no reason and I’d be happy to be able to just delete it.

This has been discussed before… the SAM essentially mirrors the license information from the Steinberg licensing servers. If a user could remove an expired trial license for a product, they could start another trial and so on…

Just go to the “Activated” tab on the left (or whatever it is called in English, “Aktiviert” here in gGrman), and it only shows the licenses that are activated on this computer.

Well - this makes sense. In general, it is Just a bit incomfort for me, nothing important.

Thnx for replies :+1::grinning_face:

P.

Then they should have a specific Trials section in SAM. Or let us make folders. But eternally having all the expired trials in the list, among all the legit lics, making it harder to read, is not a good design.

For good or ill, Steinberg’s answer to this issue is this:

Yes - for sure, as I wrote a few posts earlier.

P.

I think a solution that might make everyone happy would be to have the ability to “hide” any licenses, or especially expired trials, that might be in the manager. Of course a global “show hidden licenses” could also be implemented.

Well, their answer is not good because it’s missing an actual category. A license can be Activated, Not activated or Expired. The latter is not accounted for. It should, and there should be a pref to have those lics hidden from the main list by default.

The mods can’t do anything about it.
If you want these entries to be removed you have to open a support ticket and support will take care. That’s the only option right now. It might take a couple of weeks, though.