Exceeded my allowed activations

SketchUp Pro
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Hi all,

I read this sort of thing on here all the time so today its my turn :grinning:

I have a Desktop & a Laptop, both had Pro 2022 installed and running fine. Today I signed out of 2022 on my Laptop, uninstalled it then installed 2023 as administrator. Now I cannot sign in to 2023 as apparently I have exceeded my allowed activations.

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If I click on the manage activations link I initially get a blank screen. When I refresh the page I get to my Trimble Account but I don’t see anywhere to sign out of all versions as suggested.

Any help would be much appreciated :+1:

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go to sketchup.com - log in there.
check your account, there, check “my products”

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you should see this, more or less. click on manage devices, deauthorize all.

it should take care of it.

if not, check this solution, your PC is just not letting go of it :slight_smile: (change SU2022 to SU2023 to work)

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Thanks very much for that.

I found the ‘Manage Devices’ link thanks to your description and clicked on ‘Deauthorise all Devices’ but my PC installation still works and my Laptop still says I’ve exceeded my activations?

I will have a look at your “if not, check this solution” suggestion in the morning when I am a bit fresher and report back.

Thanks for your help :+1:

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Most important thing after deauthorizing is to log out in SketchUp itself, and then close the app.

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Thanks Mike. I was really careful to sign out of 2022 on the Laptop before uninstalling it and then installing 2023.

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I think you’ve only had a subscription since after 2021 was released, but any sign-ins on any machines, for 2019 or later, would all count against your total. In your case that means at least testing if 2021 is signed out.

If you no longer have 2021 and 2022 installed, deauthorizing all devices should be ok, you’re not likely to reopen 2021 or 2022 and sign back in again.

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Thanks Colin.

Until earlier today I had 2022 installed and working on my desktop and on my laptop. For now I would like to keep 2022 on my desktop and just install 2023 on my laptop. I signed out of 2022 on my laptop, uninstalled 2022 from my laptop and installed 2023 on it. Thats when I got the “too many activations” message on my laptop. So far Ive tried deactivating everything from my Trimble account page but 2022 still works on my PC and I still get the “too many activations” message trying to start 2023 on my laptop.

Cheers

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You may need to sign out and in again for the change to be seen.

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Just in case anybody else experiences this problem, I was unable to resolve it by signing out and deactivating all of my installations using my Trimble account no matter how many times I tried.

The solution that worked for me was deleting the login_session.dat file as described in the link kindly provided by @ateliernab which included the following useful information:

  • For Mac users, locate the login_session.dat file in your Library folder. (The path for this file should be Library/ApplicationSupport/SketchUp[Version Year]/login_session.dat)

  • For Windows users the file is located in C:\Users*USERNAME*\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp VERSION\SketchUp

Thank you all :+1:

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I am currently having this exceeded activations problem for myself now and I have tried the first option multiple time, I am currently trying the second option but my windows computer does not have the files

I can not find the appdata folder in the user folder and my computer has hundreds of them in a random folder but they are all empty, I also can use the %appdata%/sketchup

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Mine goes straight to it:

Does this help?

When you find it just delete login_session.dat

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Fingers crossed :crossed_fingers:

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Per Forum Usage I found this thread which describes the problem I am currently having - Desktop Mac Mini (M1 2020) Chip Apple M1 -OS Monterrey 12.0.1 - Hooked to a gaming computer screen - Have SketchUp Pro 23 and 24 on this machine with a valid Pro license - through to 2026. Decided to update to 2025 and got an info box/graphic that I had “too many activations”. I tried using my account to remedy the situation … no luck.

I have not tried updating operating systems on this computer. I did get a notice during the install of 2025 about the capabilities of my graphics card.

I still can run 2024.

Feedback/Sidebar info in case anyone from Sketchup Corporate sees this thread … Am a senior and my experience with SketchUp goes all the way back to Google/Boulder where I first used SketchUp to produce 3D Models for Google Earth (check out Ron Hall 76 at 3D Warehouse). I have run REVIT and various GIS software applications. Have messed with the application files/libraries before to solve problems and am lucky enough to have a daughter who knows more about both PC and MACs than most people.

Know the problem is on my end/my machine. Just find it interesting that the easy workaround for me is running an older application after having just paid a subscription for a new one. You can find out more about my personal background - google “Ron Hall 76”

Know your business model is not centered around folks like me. That said I have been a power user and advocate of SketchUp since It was first developed. For many years I did demos at conferences of various trade groups.

PS - Also owned an operated a total station instrument for construction surveying (built golf courses for decades)

Make it a good day

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I mean, there is nothing wrong with your graphics card, SU25 runs fine on an M1 machine.
Besides, the new engine, added in 2024, hasn’t changed in 2025. so if your 2024 runs fine, so will your 2025.
but for better results, you could simply maintain your mac to a closer release than mac os 12 (released in late 2021)
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if you choose not to upgrade your OS, then yeah, you might have to choose (or no to in fact) to use older versions.
you’re not paying for “the new version”. you’re paying for a licence to use sketchup as a professional, that’s how subscription works, whether you like it or not. if you choose not to maintain your machine to the minimum requirements the softwares ask for, then yup, you’re still paying for a licence to operate sketchup as a professional. not matter the version.

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For the too many authorizations part of the question, your subscription allows you to be signed in twice, though you can get away with being signed in three times. After that the message will appear.

Each sign in for SketchUp, 2019 or later, would count as one sign in, even if it’s on the same machine. There is an account management page where you can deauthorize all devices, but another way would be to sign out from the versions you’re not currently using.

So, open any version of SketchUp you have, that is 2019 or later, and once you are in, choose Sign Out from the Help menu. Once the option says Sign In, then quit that version.

After you are signed out from all versions, sign in again in SketchUp 2025, and either 2023 or 2024 if you need to open one of those too.