Here's a suggestion for your "backup plan"....
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Hopefully there were, in fact, lessons learned here, not only by Perspective Software but by the users of
Blue Iris!
How many of you have bank accounts, credit cards or organization/institution memberships and have no records, no idea of your account numbers and/or password? I doubt very few, if any, of you. So why would you not keep a record of your license number / activation key for a product you paid for? Especially when we all agree how important it is having our surveillance server(s) up and running uninterrupted, 24/7/365?
I understand one would not think such a situation would occur but as they say, "shit happens" as we all know. I hate reviewing every little charge, every little line on 3 credit card, 4 bank account statements and 4 gas, water, electricity, sewer/garbage bills every month but having found mistakes and fraudulent charges before I don't trust them to be infallible.
All 5 if my BI installs ran without incident during this process because they are
not allowed to update automatically. That recommendation has been mentioned countless times, over and over ad nauseam in this forum and apparently many of you failed to read that or if you did, you did not feel it was important or you just plain ignored it.
If any of my installs required a license key I have them all at hand, as it is so very easy....in BI's "Settings" => "About" tab, just click on the "Email support" button at the lower right and it's copied to your clipboard so you can paste it into Notepad, Word, etc. and save to a place where you can easily find it if needed.
Don't misunderstand me here.....I would agree that Perspective may have dropped the ball here and I'm pretty sure some good will come of it on their part. I know I learned something from it......I put of copy of my keys and codes on a flash drive!
