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Moving your user license to a new machine
Moving your user license to a new machine

How to move your desktop Sitebulb license from one machine to another.

Updated over a month ago

Your user license is tied to your user account. So if you log into your account on another machine, you can activate your Lite or Pro desktop license on it. What this will do is deactivate your license on the other machine.

All you need to do is download and run Sitebulb on your new machine, then sign in as normal and activate your licence.

Download Sitebulb

Download and install Sitebulb on your new machine. You can get the latest Sitebulb version from here.

Log in to Sitebulb

Once you have downloaded the software on your new machine, open Sitebulb and sign in with your account details:

Sign in to Sitebulb

Activate your Licence

When you sign in you'll notice a red 'Free Read-only' sign.

Further down the page you should find details of your user licenses.

If the license is already active on another machine, you'll see the details of this in red (e.g. in this case I had been using the license on my Mac, and wanted to move over to my Windows machine).

All you need to do is hit Activate License on any of your licenses, and you'll have shifted it across to this machine.

Account details and available licences

If you only have one license, you can activate this on the current machine, and it will deactivate it on the other one. You'll need to go through the same process every time you switch machine.

Does this mean I can crawl on 2 machines at once with 1 license?

No, it doesn't - that's the one caveat here. While you can move your license around as much as you like between machines, you cannot crawl concurrently on two different machines using the same license โ€“ to do this you would need to purchase an additional user license.

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