Dear Embarcadero, your copy protection doesn't work. In an effort to keep this post as polite as possible, I have to stop here ...

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Dear Embarcadero, your copy protection doesn't work. In an effort to keep this post as polite as possible, I have to stop here ...

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  1. Dalija PrasnikarNovember 29, 2016 at 9:13 AM

    You are one unlucky guy... you see those way too often...

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  2. Dorin DuminicaNovember 29, 2016 at 9:22 AM

    off topic: I have to ask, what does 'more than 3 million users worldwide' mean?

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  3. Horácio FilhoNovember 29, 2016 at 9:33 AM

    /sub

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  4. Boian MitovNovember 29, 2016 at 10:57 AM

    I used to get these once a month for couple of years. Then suddenly they stopped to happen. At the time the trick was to backup the license folder, so I have setup automatic backup for it now just in case. Usually for me this happened when during build process the rad studio crashed. It was on physical machine, at the time running Win7 later updated to Win 8.1 . It happened on both. Now mysteriously the problem is gone on the same machine...

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  5. Nicholas RingNovember 29, 2016 at 12:04 PM

    Fred Ahrens Maybe you should purchase a legit version ;-)

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  6. Eivind BakkestuenNovember 29, 2016 at 2:59 PM

    Dorin Duminica I don't think an official explanation for how that number was derived exists

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  7. Fred AhrensNovember 29, 2016 at 11:59 PM

    Richard Baroniunas It's a normal Windows 10 Enterprise Ed., all updates installed, non-Insider, Delphi 10.1 Berlin Upd. 2 Enterprise. No extra tools installed into the IDE, no extra anti-virus (except Windows Defender). It happens most of the time while the IDE is idle in the background for some minutes. In previous Delphi versions it usually happened when starting the debugger.

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  8. Fred AhrensNovember 30, 2016 at 12:01 AM

    Nicholas Ring There are rumors that non-legit versions don't show this behavior ;) Oh the irony ...

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  9. Nicholas RingNovember 30, 2016 at 12:55 AM

    Fred Ahrens​ Yes, I have heard such rumours... It nearly makes one go and find a copy.

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  10. Edwin YipNovember 30, 2016 at 5:51 AM

    Boian Mitov Thanks for the hint, just backed up the "license" subfolder for my XE4, just in case.

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  11. Fred AhrensNovember 30, 2016 at 9:14 AM

    Richard Baroniunas Usually I have only the latest Delphi version installed and the programs I use while Delphi is idle are Photoshop, Chrome, Architect (ADS), Outlook, OneNote - sometimes Excel, Word - nothing special.
    The main problem is: the license seems to be invalid only for some seconds. The IDE will be closed, the known web site is opened in my browser and then I can start Delphi again without problems. It's only a temporary problem but extremely annoying to get back in the project where I was. Due to frequent saving of my project I lose only a few lines of source code each time and some value changes in Object Inspector. Most of the time I can recover within 5 to 10 minutes. I did also check Event Viewer for suspicious events logged at the same time - nothing.

    As posted previously - I would even allow Embarcadero to install some tracking tools or whatever is required to get to the source of this problem.

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  12. Nicholas RingNovember 30, 2016 at 1:31 PM

    While writing a plug-in, I found that I could "generate" the licensing issue on demand nearly, until I found an unwanted feature (aka bug), so I suspect that the "feature" was overwriting some part of the memory that the license checked and then going kaboom

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  13. Mr. E !December 1, 2016 at 1:18 PM

    /sub-zero

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  14. Tony DanbyDecember 2, 2016 at 12:31 AM

    Boian Mitov The last time i installed I had this kind of problem; Please could you tell me where the license folder resides, so I can do the same ... Thanks

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  15. Boian MitovDecember 2, 2016 at 9:51 AM

    Tony Danby It is in the : "C:\Users\All Users\Embarcadero" folder. I just copy the whole folder to be safe ;-)

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