Sometimes I’ll use Rhino 8 on my laptop, or on my Mac. When I come back to my main machine and start Rhino 8, it asks if I want to “keep using Rhino 7.” This seems odd. (Yes, my installation is an upgrade to Rhino 8 from 7, 6, 5.)
Hi,
Do you use Rhino 7 currently? If not, you can safely click “No” and the dialog should go away.
This stems from a rare bug in Rhino 8 that is hard to fix for technical reasons, but should go away if you’re not mixing Rhino 7 and Rhino 8.
i have the same issue, before it even knocked out my licenses completely the only way to get around was to use zoo which is rather bothersome with this now popping up constantly
This bug will not affect running Rhino 8. It is understandably annoying in a mixed Rhino 7 / 8 environment with the right criteria, but it will not prevent you running Rhino 8 regardless of what button you click.
Hi Andrés,
Yes, I use both Rhino 7 and Rhino 8. It’s not an issue—I expect to be challenged to move my in-use license to a different machine, I just find it odd that on my main machine it references Rhino 7 instead of Rhino 8. It sounds like this is a known issue so, “nevermind.”
Thank you.
Sorry about that @davidjgall.
The issue is that Rhino 8 and Rhino 7 erroneously share the same Cloud Zoo config files, so this bug pops up. We found this bug late in Rhino 8’s launch cycle, and fixing it means we would log out every single Rhino 8 user out there, so we concluded the cure is worse than the disease.
If you are using both Rhino 7 and Rhino 8 on both computers, then clicking any button on the dialog will do. If you are using Rhino 7 on only one of the computers, you can click “No” on the other computer and the dialog should not show up again (Unless you run Rhino 7 again on that computer).
having to enter the licences again and again does not prevent me from working but it very well delays it and is quite annoying. i certainly would be happy if Rhino would not suffer from these kinds of dementia. that happened each time i updated the wip9 i believe
@encephalon this dialog does not require entering licenses at all. It is a “Yes” or “No” dialog.
As for the Rhino 9 WIP, as its name implies there are probably going to be some changes to the licensing code over time until release time that require logging in again or entering your license key if you are not using Cloud Zoo.
Now if you are having to enter your license key / login after every single Rhino 9 WIP release, that is abnormal and we should fix it (If it isn’t already known by the devs actively working on Rhino 9’s internal licensing code).