My flow just changed from normal to read-only and back to normal by itself?

Dorico
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My flow just changed from normal to read-only and back to normal by itself!
Yes indeed. I have no idea how or why.
It’s not a question of too many players or instruments.
I have one bar of alto sax with two notes in it.
What’s going on?

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Guessing: maybe SAM was checking the license and temporarily set Dorico to read-only.
Possibly a slow-Internet moment?

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Hmm, that’s always a possibility . I did not think of that.
Thanks.

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Does SAM regularly ‘check’ the licence?

If you do Audio Scrubbing, then the project becomes read-only.

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I’m not 100% sure, but that’s what Avid Link would do if it didn’t find a valid license.

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This is it. That’s why it happened.

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Dorico never checks its license while it is running. If it has a valid license when it starts up, then it will remain licensed for that entire editing session. It does not phone home regularly while it is running.

Please don’t make assumptions about what Dorico does because of the poor behaviour of other, less user-focused companies.

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I was not making any assumption, rather making an educated guess, that’s it.
I’m sorry if it came through differently.
Thank you for confirming Dorico’s licence-checking behaviour, and rest assured no one ever doubted your focus on user-experience.