It fits pretty perfectly with two months since the small series of updates when the licensing provider was changed. It was in late June and early July as I recall (I went on summer holidays in the very first days of July and had to install a trial version just in time for the last of the “licensing updates” to roll in).
In other words: It would appear that the bug has been there ever since the licensing provider was changed, but we only see it now, because two months have gone by, thus triggering the warning pop up.
Edit: I didn’t have to re-enter my activation code, as some have reported.
I also experienced the same problem this morning for the first time. However, I don’t recall being asked to enter my activation key during the recent update a couple months ago
I got the “license manager ended unexpectedly” message two days ago; it went away on its own. Then, this morning, I got the “Your automatic re-activation with our license provider has failed for more than 2 months” message.
And yes, about two months ago I had to re-input my activation code, which was weird because I’ve been a licensed user of Scrivener for a number of years.
My software is up to date. I haven’t made changes to my router or firewall.
I also received the same message for the first time yesterday. I have had no prior warnings nor have I received the “license manager ended unexpectedly” message. As far as I know, everything is up to date, and, as I have no connectivity issues with any other programs, I assume the Scrivener is able to connect.
Any update on this issue? I updated to the 4.6 .NET framework as requested and also installed the latest windows security patches (as advised in the messages in the thread) without success.
From what I’m seeing in our internal discussions, there appear to be two different failure cases.
In one, Scrivener is unable to open a connection to the activation server. For this, make sure you have the latest version of .NET, shut the computer down (all the way: cold reboot), and try again. Booting in Safe Mode with Networking may also work.
In the other situation, the connection to the server is established, but the internal License Manager component crashes and therefore doesn’t handle the response from the server correctly. We’ll need to release an update to fix this, which should happen in the next few days.
Thank you again for your patience. As the message indicates, you are in no immediate danger of losing access to Scrivener.
I’m also having this problem. I’ve been going back and forth with a customer service rep for the past few days, but they haven’t figured out what’s up yet. I sent them a startup log today, so hopefully they’ll glean something from that and get back to me.
[EDIT] Just saw the developer post above mine. I think my issue probably falls into the category that’s meant to be fixed with the next update.
Just as an FYI - I have also experienced slow program loading the last little while and this morning received the “Activation Verification” message for the first time, which led me to this message board.
I’m glad to see that the problem is being looked into.
Such a relief to hear it isn’t just me. I’ve had the same error messages and it has just escalated to the License Manager Ended which was quite alarming! From this thread at least I can relax a little knowing that my work is safe even though it is all backed up anyway. Hope the update resolving this comes soon! Thanks
It happened to me for the first time today, It didn’t show a licence in the box and then reverted to trial mode. It took two attempts to re-activate. I also did the upgrade for the new licencing a couple of months ago.
Same thing here. Scrivener became unusable on my Win 7 laptop exactly when they switched over to Paddle–it’s always “not responding” even after several shutdown/reboot cycles. None of the updates have fixed it, and now I too am seeing the activation warning. I have made sure both Scrivener and Paddle.exe passed through the firewall (have even tried turning it off).
I really hope they fix the issue soon, and as I’ve stated elsewhere in this forum, they should be giving all Windows users a free upgrade to v3 when it comes out, because this continuing BS is ridiculous.
Couldn’t get in myself. Hasn’t happened as of yet on my iPad, but on my PC desktop, Windows 10, it wouldn’t let me in and I get the same message and shuts me out if I don’t choose trial. I just re-entered my serial number and it seems the bug is fixed. I closed down and reopened and it didn’t ask for it any longer. Seems okay for now.
iOS Scrivener should be completely immune, as should Mac OS Scrivener purchased via the Apple App Store. It’s a problem with our activation vendor, and the versions sold via Apple use a completely different scheme.
(Which is not to say we haven’t had problems with Apple’s licenses in the past! Just not this time.)
Same here: I get the “2 months” message intermittently, other than that Scrivener is largely behaving itself as it has done since… god, how long has it been? I used to bug-hunt in the original Windows beta! And other than those bugs, which I was there to help hunt down, I haven’t had a single problem writing novel after novel.
(Incidentally, on the “intermittently” front, I think that so far it’s happened on the first load of Scrivener following a reboot or shutdown, and no other time. Seems like the bug is tracked already so I don’t suppose that’s very helpful, but hey.)
Basically, Scrivener’s been amazing and I’ve had no problems at all until now. I’m just worried that it will suddenly decide to revert to trial mode or begin to develop worse behaviour as some other users on this thread are seeing. Still… I’ve only been seeing this message for a week or so (presumably since two months after I installed the Paddle update), so there’s not exactly a big rush. I do have an option to deactivate this install, but looking at everyone else’s issues, I suspect trying to deactivate and reactivate would only leave me unable to use my license at all, so I’ll hold on for the update and see if that deals with it. But all my books are in Scrivener at this point! I’d feel utterly lost without it!
Thanks a lot, Katherine, for the responses and updates.
