Can't find license Rhino V7 - 🙄

[Helvetosaur]

Was just using V7. Closed it to check something then tried to open it again.
Got this:

Then after cancel, this:

After checking the “I have read…” box, I clicked Options>Login
Then I get… guess what… message #1 again.

After that, I get:

I have logged out of my account and back in again, no help. V8 and V6 run fine. I will now restart my machine - which means closing all the work I have in progress and see if that helps…

So, guess what - no dice. Restarted my machine and still getting

Good thing I don’t have any real work to do…

Tried removing the licenses in C:\ProgramData\McNeel\Rhinoceros\6.0\License Manager\Licenses, that didn’t help either.

Oh, by the way, if I enter my e-mail and it goes looking for my license - it finds it!

But alas, hitting the login button gets me message #1 again.

Running a repair install doesn’t help either.

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hey Mitch -
See

System.Net.WebException when getting license on startup of Rhino

Glad you got it sorted! For anyone else reading this, if you run into the same error message in Rhino 7, it can be resolved by starting Rhino 8 WIP and running the _Logout command. You should then be able to log back into Rhino 7.

-wim

[Helvetosaur]

OK, that worked, thanks Wim! But, WTH??? why?

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

@Helvetosaur

But, WTH??? why?

That might not help much, but from RH-70564 (not visible):

This is caused by some recent changes to the version of .NET used by Rhino 8 WIP and can be triggered by connectivity issues between Rhino and Cloud Zoo.

A fix for that went into both Rhino 7 and Rhino 8 on October 12^th.
Public versions after that date should be fine.
-wim

[Helvetosaur]

Hmm, maybe that’s in the RC that just downloaded but didn’t have a chance to install…

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

@Helvetosaur

maybe that’s in the RC

It doesn’t look like that. The RC appears to be from 10:36 that day while the fix went in at 15:20. So that would probably have been the 7.25 version.
-wim