Support please get in touch - Reset license blocked, and why is reset license needed in the first place?

How can I lodge a support ticket as a user of the freelance license without a support contract?

My issue is the following:

I use Traods Freelance 2019.

This year I had serious hardware issues. Lenovo support asked me times and again to re-install Windows on my machine. Then it switched the motherboard and I had to re-license again. Switched the motherboard again ... Finally, I retunred the device back and got antoher notebook from Dell, which I installed on November 27.

Throughout these woes, I always followed the procedure of deactivating my Trados license before ditching an installation, then reactivating the Trados license on the new installation. However, this did not always work.

So for example, most recently, when I installed my Dell notebook on November 27, I successfully activated my Trados license.  I had one free license left because i deactivated one before sending the Lenovo notebock back. So now I have no free license left and my account shows me that my last account activiation was on November 27. This should be fine, but for some mysterical reason, today,on the same Dell notebook, suddenly Trados is unlicensed again and wants to be activated once more.

When a similiar situation happened before, I could use the "Reset my license feature". But not now, it tells me that I cannot use this feature more than three times in a year. There is no option to contact support about this, I always get redirected to this community forum here.

This is a disgrace. Trados forgets its own activiations and then suspects me of product piracy and I am effectively locked out from using the proudct I paid for!?

Please could some Trados employee get back to me about this and propose a solution.

 

  • I just don't understand why it has to take place in a public forum.

    The reason for this is because many users find the answers to their questions before they even have to ask them.  If we dealt with every question anyone asked behind closed doors it would not only take a mammoth support organisation operating at a loss but nobody would have the opportunity to learn anything.  All you have to do is this:

    1. provide the version of Studio you're using
    2. explain the technical problem... we're really not interested in all the rest

    We even point this out here:

    Screenshot of Trados Studio forum with a red arrow pointing to the 'Best Practices' section outlining steps to ask a question, including providing version and explaining the technical problem.

    and simply send a standardized answer to everyone who does not qualify for a response.

    We've been there, done that, and trust me it does not work!  If you didn't believe us what would happen next?

    But if you think this is nonsense you should really reconsider.

    I agree with your sentiments on GDPR and you had to accept the requirements before you posted.  You could easily change your details that are displayed in this forum if you wanted.  You could also request we delete everything and we would happily do this.

    There must at least be one channel in which a customer and vendor can communicate in private.

    There is.  Once the support request was created you are now speaking direct via email to the technical team and not in public.  So all you have to do is provide the minimum information required to help solve/create the case.  After that we either provide the solution because it didn't really need to go to support in the first place, or we send you to support.

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    [edited by: Trados AI at 11:52 AM (GMT 0) on 4 Mar 2024]