Hopefully the subject line says it all.  Anyone here switched their computer-based iLok registrations to a physical dongle?  I suppose it should be straightforward, but it would be nice to get that confirmed.
 
I'm getting so much stuff now that uses the non-hardware iLok registration that I've actually been thinking that the physical dongle might even be an improvement ... or maybe I'm just getting senile in my advancing years.

Straightforward indeed. First register the dongle to your iLok account. Next you deactivate any plugin from your computer and activate it to your dongle. Easy peasy.

dmbaer
Hopefully the subject line says it all.  Anyone here switched their computer-based iLok registrations to a physical dongle?  I suppose it should be straightforward, but it would be nice to get that confirmed.
 
I'm getting so much stuff now that uses the non-hardware iLok registration that I've actually been thinking that the physical dongle might even be an improvement ... or maybe I'm just getting senile in my advancing years.

 I moved more away from this if I there is a two machine limit.  Melodyne has the iLok option. So if it's on the iLok I'd have to use the dongle if I wanted to switch machines.
 

The OP's question is something I have been considering myself ...
All my i Lock stuff is on one machine ( a placeholder computer w the software / computer version of protection )
My other computer is beefier but it doesn't have enough space to fit all the i lock protected software ...
I'm thinking that once I move away from 2 lap tops and get a desktop I'm gonna want to use a hardware dongle if it's not too big a deal to get up and running ...
 
Kenny

kennywtelejazz
I'm thinking that once I move away from 2 lap tops and get a desktop I'm gonna want to use a hardware dongle if it's not too big a deal to get up and running ...

I recall with quite a bit of unease my last experience in upgrading my DAW - something I've only done once so far.  It makes me recoil at the thought of ever having to do it again.  It took days (full eight-hour-working-type days) and most of that was getting all the sound software installed and registered.  It made me wish that everything I owned would be on an iLok. 
 
I've used an eLicenser for some time due to being a Cubase user.  As much as I've always been negative about the use of dongles, I will say that the eLicenser has never caused me to waste a single minute sorting out problems. 
 
If every company in the world of computer sound production went with iLok, I'd actually be a happy camper.  But that's wishful thinking.  If I have sound software from four dozen companies (and it's actually probably even more), then there are at least twenty different registration/authorization schemes to contend with.

I did that last December.  Super straightforward and I am less paranoid now about changes to my PC screwing up the computer based auths.

Fleer
Straightforward indeed. First register the dongle to your iLok account. Next you deactivate any plugin from your computer and activate it to your dongle. Easy peasy.

Unless the vendor does not allow that. Most should, but buyer beware.

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dmbaer

kennywtelejazz
I'm thinking that once I move away from 2 lap tops and get a desktop I'm gonna want to use a hardware dongle if it's not too big a deal to get up and running ...

I recall with quite a bit of unease my last experience in upgrading my DAW - something I've only done once so far.  It makes me recoil at the thought of ever having to do it again.  It took days (full eight-hour-working-type days) and most of that was getting all the sound software installed and registered.  It made me wish that everything I owned would be on an iLok. 
 
I've used an eLicenser for some time due to being a Cubase user.  As much as I've always been negative about the use of dongles, I will say that the eLicenser has never caused me to waste a single minute sorting out problems. 
 
If every company in the world of computer sound production went with iLok, I'd actually be a happy camper.  But that's wishful thinking.  If I have sound software from four dozen companies (and it's actually probably even more), then there are at least twenty different registration/authorization schemes to contend with.

 
I share your enthusiasm for the iLok. I've never had any real trouble and when I built a new machine the iLok stuff was easy to get going again.

Just drag it from the computer based section to your dongle, all in ILM.
A breeze!