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How do I install an IP-based CSD Portfolio licence key?

Solution

​To install your IP-based CSD Portfolio licence key(s), copy and paste each IP-licence key line you have been provided into an existing or new file called ‘csd_licence.dat’ in your CSD database files location. For Windows this will be the ‘CSD V5.XX’ folder where you installed the CSD Portfolio, for linux it will be the ‘csd’ subdirectory. Both should contain files of the form as5XXbe.* (where XX is the version number of the database).
 
The resultant csd_licence.dat file should contain lines like the following, one for each IP range you have been given:
 
0000-0000-0000-0000=1234-1234-1234-1234-1234-1234-1234-1234-1234