Switching from dongle and upgrading

[steve]

Contact Steinberg directly and tell them what happened – I am sure you will be able to do the update since your elicenser was registered in your Steinberg account.

See this post from SB to understand why I would suggest this

Confusing statement for eLicensers

I may be involved too much to see the ambiguity here If an eLicenser (USB-eLicenser and Soft-eLicenser) is registered and contains a license we offer updates/upgrades for, those can be made even after the servers are shut down. We have found a reliable way to bypass the server check for eligibility and rely on the registrations made in MySteinberg. Of course, you could register a spare USB-eLicenser but if that eLicenser does not hold any licenses, there is no use for it. Anything that…