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17 years ago

licensing error again

I'm so sick of this BS licensing crap! I've got an Altera USB dongle, and I just installed 8.1 on another pc in the lab. I copied the .dat file from my first machine to this one, and upon launch...
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17 years ago

The license file location entered in the GUI is saved at "C:\Documents and Settings\$USERNAME\quartus2.ini". Maybe Quartus isn't able to update that file for some reason.

I would expect you to have write access to that directory even if you don't have administrator privileges, but using a login without administrator privileges can be a problem for Quartus.

My quartus2.ini has this: 


LICENSE_FILE = C:\flexlm\license.dat