KB: Warning: License Renewal Failed

Altium Designer Altium Designer
Starting in version: 18 Up to Current

This article has steps that should stop the pop-up message: Warning: License Renewal Failed The License Manager was not able to renew your license. Altium Designer will retry periodically.

Solution Details

If you are seeing this:

 
 
Try this:
  1. In Altium Designer release any licenses 
  2. Close Altium Designer 
  3. Delete the *_Security folder(s) in  C:\ProgramData\Altium\     (may have to view hidden files to see the ProgramData folder)
  4. Restart Altium Designer
Notes:
The security folder will be re-created when you open Altium Designer
You may only have one (There will be one for each version of Altium installed on your computer)

This solution has also been known to resolve these issues:
When a license won't release or after release says it's in use by you.
"Use" is grayed-out

 


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