Conrad P Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 A relatively new file has appeared in the user folder in recent years called 'machine_uuid.txt'. Well sounds like something potentially very useful... Could someone from VW comment on this and let me know what it is and how it is maintained? What I mean is if I go change it what happens? Can I safely use this to identify the machine my stuff is installed on? Conrad Quote Link to comment
Cris with no H Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 I'd like to know too. I know your copy of VW is registered by being tied to your machine's unique ID - I suspect this is part of it. Perhaps a temp file that gets created during the registration process but that didn't get deleted? Quote Link to comment
Conrad P Posted April 19, 2018 Author Share Posted April 19, 2018 Hi Chris, Well I asked the guru and the reply was this: The machine_uuid.txt file contains an identifier that uniquely identifies a machine on which Vectorworks has been installed. It is used by Message Center, in conjunction with network adapter MAC addresses and application serial numbers, in order to identify/validate a Vectorworks client. UUID values can be relied upon to be unique (the chances of any two clients generating the same UUID values are incredibly remote). If the machine_uuid.txt file does not exist upon Vectorworks start-up, it will be created. So it seems to me that it isn't necessarily suitable for licence verification purposes given that it's just a text file and easily tampered with. Conrad Quote Link to comment
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