Just incase a dongle stops working?
cheers, kevin
It is possible to move them but not copy.
Oh, thank you, got no intention of buying 12 and just wanted to have a back up dongle…
Hi,
You don’t need a backup dongle. If you would lose it or if it would become broken, the of the Zero Down Time time period and the process, how to ask for the replacement code.
You do actually need a backup USB-eLicenser to take advantage of the Zero Downtime.
Hi, I have a spare dongle it’s a pity I cannot have the licences on it so if my regular one goes pear shaped I could exchange it in a matter of seconds, so yeah, I would have to use the zero down time…hopefully this will still be available for a long time in the future but given that Steinberg wants us to move to 12 I think they will be keen to remove it after a year or so…business is business innit!!
thank you for the answers guys…
I did this recently when my dongle maxed out at 200 licenses. I could not download new licenses to my default dongle when I tried to download a new license. I copied some redundant licenses from one dongle to a spare I had.
Not copy but move, I did this recently because I suspected my dongle was acting up, and I also did not had the latest Gen, so I bought a fresh one and transfered and everythings groovy.
How did you copy ? Now that the Elicense has finished i want to create a spare.
You can’t do that as has been said said already. You can only move license between dongles.
Rommelaar said he copied.
Why don’t you simply try it if you have two dongles?
I pasted the Steinberg documentation in one of your other threads, where it clearly states you can not do this.
Copying would have not made more space on his existing dongle and making space is what he did… he misdescribed moving as copying.
OK Thank You.
And as of next month, I don’t think one can even do that as there will be no server that “sees” pre-registered dongles to even facilitate authorization moves.
In effect, having two registered dongles here in December 2024 means that …only for the next what…4-5 weeks or whatever…auths can be moved (by the server) from one registered dongle to another.
That possibility is toast by some point next month, January 2025.
As I understand it anyway.
Now on the other hand…Timo or someone posted a couple of months back on one of the buried posts around the site (I had to copy the post so I’d remember it 
) …that when the server is turned off…and IF a registered user possessing “only” an old dongle-only ver of cubendo has a failure of his/her dongle in future times…sb WILL figure out a solution for that person…
Dunno what that solution would be if the user only has an ancient windowsXP system or whatever…but…at least SB has said they won’t leave users stranded when …and we ARE talking “when” …a dongle fails or is lost.
Long-winded summary…“two” registered elicenser dongles are only potentially useable as backups for each other for maybe the next 6 weeks…
Where did you get that date from?
The offical statement from Steinberg still says “early 2025”, not 01.January 2025.
They will work indefinetly, they do not stop working. The point where it stops is when the dongle hardware fails, not next month.
They always have. Steinberg has always been responsive to users in this regard.
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