It launches as SE but I own Pro

Dorico
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I own Dorico Pro 6. But once in a blue moon, Dorico will launch, and I’ll notice the red UPGRADE button in the corner, which confuses me since I’m already on the latest. Then when I choose About Dorico, it boldly tells me I’m running Dorico SE 6.

If I quit and relaunch it, it always come back. But this has happened occasionally here and there and it seems important to bring up. Is this a known bug? Has anyone else seen it?

I’d hate to get into a situation where Dorico continually launches as SE and doesn’t allow me to access the Pro features.

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If you mistakenly hold down a modifier key (ctrl, alt) while launching Dorico, it will launch as SE or Elements.

Jesper

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And what if you launch the Steinberg Activation Manager, does that one show your Dorico Pro license as “Active”?

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Steinberg Activation Manager does show Dorico Pro 6 as activated.

As mentioned before, simply quitting and relaunching Dorico seems to fix it. Hopefully that will always be the case, but I wonder why it happens occasionally (maybe once every few months) and want to make sure it never happens in a way that isn’t quickly fixable. No one else has seen this?

@jesele interesting idea. I don’t think I did, but of course, I could have done that by accident. I will try and keep an eye on that.

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One possible cause for this is that you might inadvertently be holding down Ctrl / Command when starting Dorico, which triggers it to run as Dorico SE.