BoiseDesigns Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Just getting back into the chief architect and my last version was X1, and I just moved and I cannot find my dongle. if anybody would please be willing to sell me one, let me know. thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvoyeDesign Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Probably best to contact Chief Customer Service and see what they would recommend. As far as I recall, a dongle is registered to the actual license, so in theory if I sent you mine, you would have to run my license. And doing so would likely violate the terms of service as my X10 license was upgraded from X1 (through various versions in between) and is the same license. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 I think Lew has stated before that you can "donate " old HASP Keys to other Users but best to call Chief and confirm .....though Lew may pop in here too and know the SOP. @lbuttery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 The dongle will work with any properly licensed software it is illegal to sell the dongle without selling the license also CA allows the dongle to be donated to a licensed user I charged $5 for mailing cost best to verify with CA if the "borrower" is a licensed user before sending the dongle Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoiseDesigns Posted October 4, 2018 Author Share Posted October 4, 2018 Thanks for that, I have been a licensed user since 2000 but I have taken the last 8 or 9 years off since the crash in construction and I'm just getting back into it. I was told by chief architect that I could ask to see if any were available on the forum as they didn't have any to sell me at the time. Like I said I'm going to buy the upgrade at the Holiday sale. 208.944.0777 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Unfortunately, I already donated my X1 dongle to someone hopefully someone can donate theirs to you be aware that starting with X10 CA no longer uses dongles - software lock only I have decided to stay with X9 and so has my partner as we prefer hardware locks We are keeping our SSA active for now so I do have X10 but I have no plans to use it at this time the timing was unfortunate as X10 introduces the plan set feature and it sounds very useful but I am retired and for my personal history preservation projects I don't even use anno-sets so for now X9 meets my needs fine Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 I already donated mine a while back ,and the person got the envelope but the hasp broke out of the envelope and was never seen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 7 hours ago, BoiseDesigns said: Like I said I'm going to buy the upgrade at the Holiday sale. I think anything before X6 requires a Full Re-buy now but you are right they do often have 10-20% Off at Xmas. You can also Rent Monthly now ($199) but it does work out 20% more expensive after the 16 month Rent to Own period Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 also, if you should decide to buy an older version get X4 or later as X4 introduced anno-sets avoid X3 as it had a library subscription system that was horrid X4 introduced the current library system and is much better it still needs improvements but it works fairly well rental would be a good way to go Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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