N10 - Frequent eLicensor Control errors

I’ve been getting these errors for a few weeks now with N8, and various VSTi’s with E-Licenser protection.

It was so bad that Nuendo was almost unusable, obviously I did all the updating/maintenance.

MySteinberg support suggested getting new E-licenser dongles, as mine were pretty old, pre-2005.

This really helped a lot, I thought it was solved until the errors started coming back about 2 weeks later. Not as bad and it can be fixed by running E-Lic maintenance. Occasionally I have to reinstall the E-Lic app.

I raised another support ticket, and was told

Close all programs.

  • Open this folder: /Library/Application Support/Syncrosoft Soft-eLicenser/
  • Delete this file “SeLicenser.sel”.

Again, this helped, and it got rid of the Soft E-Licenser which had no licenses on it, and sometimes seemed to start the errors going, but the bottom line is I’m still getting occasional errors.

Hopefully if this is happening to more people than just me Steinberg will be able to find a permanent fix.