argo not being portable

[A Hill]

I have ceedo and argo registered on SD card. It works fine. but when I move it to another computer, while ceedo is happy and remains registered, argo complains that it is expired. I try to import the license but it says it is the wrong serial number. When I move the SD card back to the first computer, it is fine and says the registration expires "never" for both! Now the idea is for this to be portable, I was trying a copy of a program that I considered buying which I could move around with me, but I can't determine if it is one that is really portable when argo itself won't move. Any suggestions please.

[keith]

This is a tricky one. Argo is portable. I have had no issues using it on several different drives. I have used all the drives I have had Ceedo (with Argo and B&R) installed on on multiple machines with no issues at all. I have never used Ceedo on an SD card, though.

To be honest with you, I don't think that Ceedo was designed to run from an SD card. Nor do I think that SD cards were designed to run an application like Ceedo.

It sounds as if each machine is assigning a different ID to your SD card. I have no idea why the Ceedo license remains unaffected but the Argo license is considered to be expired. I'm going to have to leave this one to the Ceedo support team.

I will say this, though: the issue that you are currently experiencing is just one more very good reason why Ceedo and Argo should be one application instead of two. And no, I am not going to let this issue go ... or at least not until the Ceedo team finally listens to reason and bundles the two applications and sells them as one instead of the way they are doing it now.

Sorry for the mini-rant, but the Argo-as-an-addon issue has long been a bone of contention with me, and I'll use any excuse to bring it up. Didn't mean to hijack your thread. :cool:

Anybody else have an idea that could help resolve the issue that Mr. Hill is experiencing? I'm pretty much stumped on this one.

[Lothar]

Hi Keith, your assumtion is right. An SD Card has no ID. It is more or less the same issue as it is with the formatted USB Drives with changing serial number.

[A Hill]

Actually I have another card that is both an SD and USB (top and tail) which I was hoping to use at some stage too!. I have SD card readers in most of my computers and having it tucked safely away there seemed a nice idea (as opposed to the USB dangling precariously). It also could pop into a camera and move with a usb cable too, I thought...
My main computer is a M200 tablet (toshiba) which has no CD drive so keeping the SD card in nicely reserves my D drive space.

Anyway you got me thinking. So I tried the SD card in the camera and plugged it into the second computer - now recognised as a USB device, and got the same result (Ceedo okay but Argo expired). Then I took the camera back to my tablet and tried to run it. Now it says Ceedo license is invalid (serial number does not match) and won't load at all from the USB camera configuration on the tablet!

Remove the SD from the camera and plug it back in to the card drive on the tablet, lo and behold Ceedo and Argo are happy:p but just not going anywhere...:confused:
Ant

[keith]

Here's something you can try. I know it's a long shot, but you won't lose anything by giving it a shot.

In folder options, select the option to show hidden files and system files. Then copy the Ceedo.mrf files from one of your USB pen drives over to the My Documents directory on the SD card. Also, copy the .mrf files from the SD card so you can put them back if necessary.

When you use the SD card on another system let Ceedo auto-run so that it knows that Argo is expired. Then exit Ceedo (exit, not eject), and copy the USB pen drive's .mrf files over to the Ceedo\Ceedo directory and fire Ceedo up again. This may enable you to use both Ceedo and Argo. I don't think it will work, but if you don't try, you won't know. Like I said, it's a long shot.

[A Hill]

Hi Keith,
Sounds like an interesting suggestion but I don't have a registered copy of ceedo/argo on a usb, only registered on my SD card and a separate one on a Seagate Freeagent 80gb. I presume that means I don't have anything appropriate to copy .
Anthony

[keith]

Anthony,

You have the right of it. Pretty much, if you don't have another device that you can install Ceedo onto and transfer your license, you are behind the eight ball.