I've got a slight issue. I'm aware the deadline for the switching off of the e-licenser server is looming, and am not sure what to do. My system has four machines, two on Win10, and two still on Win7 - those last two almost certainly won't actually run Win10 or 11.
I've never moved from my e-licenser versions of everything because, as I understand it, the first iLok-authorised build of VEPro required at least Win10 - and, since all machines must be using the same version of VEPro, I can only run the version that my Win7 machines will run. Ditto my instruments - I have most of the original symphonic cube and some other bits and bobs, spread across the four machines, all of it still e-licenser.
It's becoming clear that I'm only ever going to be a hobbyist musician, so I'm not looking to throw much more into machines. On the other hand I would like to maintain any future-proofing that I can. I'm thinking I've only got two options:
- Keep my system as it is. On the day the e-licenser server turns off I lose the ability to surrender those licenses, and will essentially just be running what I've got until the day it dies.
- Move everything onto the two newer machines now, and upgrade everything to iLok. But that renders the two Win7 machines useless today, rather than when they eventually do die.
- Any magical solution anyone else can see that I can't. For instance if anyone knows that there is a version of VEPro - hiding in the previous builds - that used iLok and didn't refuse to install on Win7.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can continue to use what I've got?