I realize this is a long shot, but...
 
Most, if not all, 30 day trial software lasts for 30 consecutive days, whether you use it or not.
 
My problem is I am not always at my computer. Life gets in the way and before I know it the 30 days is up and I've barely used the program.
 
My thought to remedy this is to make a 30 day trial last for the actual 30 days you use it. Each day you use it, it logs that day whether you use it once or 50 times in that day. If you only use it one day a month it will last 30 months. That way you are guaranteed 30 actual days of use, not 5 or 10 like in my cases.
 
Just a thought!
 
Steve

Yes life is like that! 
I actually do agree with you. I'd be happy with 2 weeks of logged on trial limit rather than an open month.
Logically you do not install until you intend to check a demo out rarely works due to life and we all know how it flies.
Good idea!

I like the idea, too.

Don't know if CW will do it, but I had a similar issue when trialling Ozone, which has an even shorter trial time. I contacted them and told them my problem and they gave me another trial period. I agree it would be nice if there was some kind of countdown device on trials that was only activated when it was actually in use.

I have not checked the protection schema they use, but from my experience the software which update "running period" each time is usually easy to "trick" (without any hack). With "Initial time" protection it is more complicated.

That would be nice - I think they are trying to get you to make up your mind quickly, so you will buy the product.
 
I know for me that for some products, finding enough time to really exercise them when I was traveling for work was pretty difficult.
 
Bob Bone
 

> My thought to remedy this is to make a 30 day trial last for the actual 30 days you use it.
 
That wouldn't be a trial period, that would be a free 30 day hire. It could possibly work perhaps if you (say) reduced the trial period to 7 days. In the end they want to corner you into a purchasing decision eventually (not next year), this isn't solely for your convenience, they want to mount a little pressure on you.
 
In my opinion it shouldn't take more than a whole day for it to be evaluated, and most people will take less than half a day. As it stands it seems reasonable to have 30 days to trial a product (plus pretty much everybody does it this way). If you can't schedule a day over 30 days to trial a product, don't run the trial..

Case closed. Thanks for that helpful advice Alex. One size fits all is the way to go.

ya 30 days total seems like a long time to trial software.
I could record a whole album in 30 days and I think that's unfair to paying customers to have a trial that lasts almost as long as it takes to record a few full length sessions.
 
I think the 30 day thing is to just give you a taste of the daw, not let you use it to make money.
30 full days seems like you could accomplish just that.

Well, to be fair, it was just an idea to be discussed pros and cons.
 
Since it is a 30 day trial, there's nothing stopping someone with 30 free consecutive days from doing just that. My point was I don't have 30 consecutive days. I barely have 5 in a given month, hardly enough to get the feel of it, let alone read the 1,245 page manual so I can figure out how to even use it.