I was going to install Strike 2 tomorrow...but will wait. All my iLok licenses are kept on my two iLok 2s. I don't do any HD (if this means hard drive) installs...only to the iLok keys. Does this mean I may have dodged this particular bullet??

yorolpal
I was going to install Strike 2 tomorrow...but will wait. All my iLok licenses are kept on my two iLok 2s. I don't do any HD (if this means hard drive) installs...only to the iLok keys. Does this mean I may have dodged this particular bullet??

It does appear that HD-based systems are bearing the brunt of the problems, but physical iLok users are having troubles as well (including me). I would strongly advise anyone NOT to do anything involving iLok licenses until the coast is clear.
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

Bhajan Blue has the probably answer. Pain in the chalumbas, but Ilock doesn't start with boot, and you are up the creek without a paddle unless you manually start the "service" (and I use the term service with some contempt. They ain't serving you or your family.).
 
Depending on the OS, several steps are required either going thru the task manager or Administrative something from the control panel. Start the service before opening DAW and everything should work, maybe. Plug and Pray.
 
Know this ain't popular advice, but I ended all my grief with a Warez crack, after paying full asking price to the companies for their products. Time and effort spent begging Ilock to allow another activation after it was dumped. Then time spent with the company trying to convince them that I'm not a thief. I just want to use the damned plugin, not be treated like a criminal.
 
Sad, but the fix is a couple mouse clicks away in the underground. Ilock gets my middle finger. Company gets my money for morally purchased software. They are happy, I'm happy.
 
Do not condone stealing software, and all my plugs are fully paid for. Can sleep free at night over this.
 
No Ilock problems here however.
 
John
 
 

The problem I see just happened today when I bought ADAPTIVERB.
 
When I upgraded my desktop and laptop to Windows 10 pro Anniversary edition a week ago I went through all the authorization softwares - iLok, XLN, etc. They all worked yesterday.
 
I installed Adaptiverb on my desktop and now Falcon and Blackhole both fail the same way. But they work on my laptop which does not have Adaptiverb.
 
The iLok software is up-to-date and the Pace services are running.
The failure I see is this:
 

 

Plug and pray, LOL !
Sadly no solution here (Mac El Capitan).
Welcome to the party, arachnaut.

I managed to get them to work now.
 
Here is what I did:
 
1) Open iLok License Manager
2) Deactivate all licenses
3) Start Sonar
4) Load one plug-in. When the Plug-in Activation window appears go to the iLok manager and activate that license.
5) Now the plug-in works.
6) Repeat for each plug-in.
 

Deactivate all licenses and then activate them again? Is there a batch deactivate and reactivate knob to push?
Edith: I have to say Jim's approach does work, albeit one at a time. Cheers, Jim!

And here is possibly the most telling thing of this whole saga.

There is not a single mention of this on the iLok site. No heads up. No FYI. No nothing. What a great company. Who owns this POS anyway? Does anyone have their direct email??

(And I'm a user who heretofore has had no real problem with the iLok concept)

I particularly dislike the fact that this month's iLokalypse affects machine activations more than dongles, as I was somewhat happy with more and more developers taking that route. Yet now it seems dongles keep on ruling the world for time to come.
Here's an interesting vid about the problem of "iLok or no iLok":
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ieDXIhci7o

That was quite the read (KVR thread). If that discussion had happened in a bar compyfox would have gotten his ass kicked, and good!