Surely this is an oft-asked question.
I have a network of Macs in my home, two primaries that I use, one in my office and one in my music studio. I normally use Dorico in my office (where I also have a couple of MIDI keyboards), but now it would be very practical for me to have it running on the machine in my music studio.
I’m certain this must be permitted. Would someone just point me to a link with the authentic instructions for doing this so I don’t have to bother the forum with a question so fundamental?
You are allowed 3 activations. Just activate the second one with Steinberg Activation Manager. And first install everything with Steinberg Download Assistant.
Jesper
You did not mention which release of Dorico you currently have installed.
Assuming it is Dorico 4 or higher the solution is pretty simple. You are allowed to activate up to three computer at the same time. All you need to do on your second machine is, download the Download Assistant, install it and login using your Steinberg account.
From there download and install Dorico and the other packages, which belong to your license. After that just launch the Activation Manager (it is installed automatically by the Download Assistant) and click on Activate.
That’s it, now you have two licenses active on two different machines.
EDIT: @jesele You beat me by a matter of seconds 
Yes, but your answer was more thorough.
Jesper
Thanks. To answer someone’s question, I’m up to date with the very latest Dorico as far as I know. (On my Macs — 6.2.30.6245.)
The instructions related seem straighforward enough. I’m busy and haven’t gotten around to this yet, but hope to do it today or maybe tomorrow. One brief followup question though … because I’ve never done this before …
I’m familiar (of course) with the Steinberg Activation Manager and Steinberg Library Manager. What I’m unsure of is … I guess I’ve got to go to Steinberg and download them both to my second system and then run one … or both and the Dorico software itself. But what I want to know is, how do these apps know it’s ME, i.e. that I’m a legit registered user of the product seeking to load it on a second machine? It will probably become obvious once I start and it will lead me through it.
So I guess what I’m really asking is what is the FIRST THING I have to do? Download and run the Download Assistant on my second machine?
Yes.
You’ll be asked to log in, just as you were when you installed on your first machine. (As JuergenP said.)
Now that I’m getting around to installing Dorico 6 on my second machine, I find that I have a DIFFERENT problem than I originally thought.
I forgot: I ALREADY HAVE Dorico on my second machine! Also the Steinberg Download Assistant et al.
I first bought Dorico just after Finale announced its end of life plans and the migration offer to Dorico. At that time the Mac that is now my music studio machine was my main office machine. And I see that I actually have Dorico 5.8.81 on that machine. I’d completely forgotten about that!
My problem now is that I need to UPGRADE that machine to Dorico 6.2.N and make sure it’s registered and licensed properly. (I see only my office machine listed.)
When I opened Dorico 5 for the first time in at least a year on the second machine, it popped up a message that Dorico 6.2.N is now available, with a link to More Information. I clicked on that, and it took me to Steinberg’s page where it lists a million reasons why Dorico 6 is better. However, I don’t see any link anywhere to download the software.
And having opened that link and closed it, Dorico 5 no longer reminds me so I’ll have to search my browser history to open it again.
What do I do next? I really was hoping that this would be a simple, painless process.
It should be. Simply run the Download Assistant. You should see both Dorico 5 and 6 listed under “My products”. Click on Dorico 6 and install.
(5 and 6 can both be installed at the same time, but feel free to delete the 5 installation if you don’t need it. The standard way to delete an app on MacOS is to drag it from the Apps to the trash.)
When I run the Download Assistant, I get a popup saying
A connection to the download server could not be established
and to check my network connection. There’s nothing wrong with my network connection.
I should add that earlier I saw one of those macOS based messages warning me that Steinberg Download Assistant will not run on future versions of macOS. (They’re eliminating support for non-Apple silicon. I trust readers of this note understand what that’s all about.)
So I guess, if not now, then soon, I should also download newer versions of the Download Assistant and Library Manager. (And anything else?) I’m assuming that this is a well-known problem and that Steinberg is on top of it with newer versions of these utilities.
However, theoretically I should be able to run Download Assistant with the current version, were it not for the error message above.
Nothing is ever simple.
That usually means your Download Assistent is too old, you need to download and install the latest release.
It just happens that both of the computers in this enigma needed to be upgraded to macOS 27.0, which I just completed. For some reason, my main computer upgraded first to 26.N (something). I tried again and everything is up.
When I run the Steinberg Library Manager, it tells me I need Rosetta. I thought (a) I already had Rosetta (a long time ago) and (b) Rosetta was going away. Nonetheless, it popped up a thing to install Rosetta (on both systems). After that I tried running Steinberg Library Manager.
On this computer I’m using now, my main office machine (an M4 iMac), the Library Manager runs fine.
On the other computer (an M1 Mini), I still get the popup that the Library Manager can’t get to the address and to check my internet connection.
There is nothing wrong with my internet connection.
So I’m stuck at this point, but at least I have both of my primary Macs newly updated. I don’t know what to do next.
Sorry, all I can do is to repeat, download the latest Download Assistant, which is Apple Silicon native. It will also install the latest utilities, including the Silicon native library Manager, so that Rosetta is not used anymore.
This problem is now solved.
Given the right starting point, I was able to download a properly functioning Library Manager and used it to do a full installation of Dorico 6.2.30 on my Mac M1 Mini.
Thanks to all for patient pointers.