Fix license conflict when removing/adding PC

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Hello, 
 We are using Timeslips 2006 for 3 users, and we are having some type of licensing conflict. Using Station Administrator I removed a PC that is no longer working. Then I added a new PC, installed using the installation disc, then used Station Administrator to point to the correct database and activate using the proper codes and serial numbers. It works, but it appears as a separate licensing then the other workstations. I can use Timeslips on the other two workstations simultaneously with no issue, but the new install sees the older two, and will not work unless that have the application closed. Need advisement on how to flix the licensing conflict, please.

Nancy Duhon · Accepted Answer

Hello Bil Morschauser , and welcome to Sage City - Timeslips community. 
 Congratulations on 17 years of running the same version of Timeslips. That is quite a run! 
 The issue stems from installing the new workstation via the original media and codes. That creates a new "master" or "main" installation with its own Timeslip.CFG file to manage licenses. So you now have two Timeslip.CFG files trying to manage the licenses where you should only have one. 
 The old machines are looking at the original one, your new machine is looking at the second. 
 STEP ONE: Check which one each is using by opening each program one at a time and checking under (from the topmost menus) Help, About Timeslips 2006 for the Installation Path. Write the path down. 
 
 There should be no need to uninstall and redo the install on the new machine correctly to fix the problem. 
 STEP TWO: On the new/third machine, with Timeslips CLOSED, find the second Timeslip.CFG file and rename it. You should find it in the folder that you just wrote down for the Installation Path in Step One for this machine. I usually just make the name something like TimeslipOLD.CFG. What you rename it to is inconsequential. We are just renaming it so that the program will not find a file with that name in that location the next time it tries to run. 
 STEP THREE: Now, open Timeslips on at least one of the two original machines. This will help insure that your pathing in the next step is correct. 
 STEP FOUR: Back on the third machine, try to open Timeslips. It should prompt you to locate the Timeslip.CFG file since you have renamed the second one and now it cannot find and use the wrong one. Navigate to the Timeslips.CFG file that the other two machines use. That should "join up" the third machine to the correct central Timeslips.CFG file and resolve your licensing issues. 
 Nancy Duhon, Esq. Duhon Technology Solutions, LLC Master Certified Consultant for Sage Timeslips Providing individual Consultations and Third Party Remote Desktop Support - including older/unsupported versions. 404-325-9779 duhon@duhon.biz

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