I’d like to upgrade to MacOs 15 (Sequoia), but want to be sure to still be able to use SU18 (and not the cripled web-version).
Now I still have MacOS 12.7.6.(Monterey) on my M1 MacBook #1, and I still use my once bought and vintage Sketchup Pro 2018 every-now-and-then. It still works pretty much okay (but I have to admit I don’t use it very often nor intensive any more).
To check it’s compatibility, I installed it on my girlfriends M1 MacBook #2 MacOS 15 Sequoia, but can’t license it, (after changing google to bing somewhere) SU tells me the serial is already to often used… (Why? Perhaps by me, not clearing the devices I used the last years)
Probably I should unlicense the working version on MacBook #1, license it on Macbook #2, hoping it works. But this seems a bit risky to me: how do I know I can (re)license while apparantly there are already too many devices using this serial?
You would have to release the license on at least one of your machines in order to license it on your girlfriend’s computer. Risky? Yes. There have been issues related to the license server for the old versions so you may not be able to re-license it.
SketchUp 2024 doesn’t even support Sequoia. I wouldn’t expect good things with SketchUp 2018.
Tried SU18 (in trial-version) at my girlfriends MacBook running MacOS 13.5.2 (Ventura), and that worked fine (for the 5 minutes trying).
After updating this MB to Sequoia, I couldn’t get the trail-version working. And after deleting and re-installing SU18 on this MB, I didn’t get the possibility to use SU18 as a trial. But it does start-up as normal, so there’s at least a chance it might work.
As far as I’ve read and remember, SU18 and 19 or running better on newer MacOSses than SU and up.
Can I somehow / somehwere check how many machines are related to my serial?
You have SketchUp 2018 installed on three computers (the license allows you to use two computers, but it is possible to install onto three computers). To free up the license for use on a new Mac you would need to remove the license from an old machine.
If the Mac you’re upgrading to Sequoia had already run SketchUp 2018 in the past, the existing license should work ok.
There are some issues in macOS Sonoma and later, that affect all versions of SketchUp, but aside from those, 2018 seems to work ok.
@DaveR - I meant: “As far as I’ve read and remember, SU18 and 19 are running better on newer MacOSses than SU20 and up.” (sorry for my untidy writing )
And many thanks, @colin! I now and can access 2 computers I used SU18 on (the MB #1 and a spare MacBook 13" from 2015), the third might be a computer that I lent to a friend, and which is completely erased (I believe a 16" MB from '19)… Can I still remove that license?
(As soon as I have a working SU18 on my MB #1 Sequoia, I will let the community now.)
If you had your friend install SketchUp 2018 and add your 2018 license, I think it would work. They then could remove the license to free it up for your use.
A little update about my quest to check how SU18 will perform on Sequoia:
Installed SU18 on my friends MacBook Pro (15" 2018 2,2GHz 6-core i7, Radeon Pro 555X 4 GB, 32 GB DDR4) with Sonoma 14.4.1. While having issues with the ‘offline’ problem, I opened SU18 as a trial: that worked fine so far.
After this, I (at first) unsuccesfully tried to solve the ‘offline’ notification with this procedure, until recognizing the machine actually still IS offline. Solving this solved the ‘offline’ notification.
But unfortunately it appears it wasn’t this machine on which once I licensed my SU18, since it tells me “oops, this license has been used on too many computers.”
Okay… what options are left?
First, I wanted to check SU18 on my spare “MacBook 13” from 2015", and SU18 on this machine appears not licensed. Strange, since I used this machine ‘licensed’ back in 2022 (while checking old SU-files).
So apparently there’s only one copy of SU18 licensed on machines I can access, my main MB.
Theoretically I could unlicense this copy, license my Sequoia running girlfriends MB, checking SU18 workability, and (un)license it back on my main machine.
But it seems this is quite risky… Maybe just upgrading to Sequoia with my main MB delivers better chances running SU18. Hmmm…
(@colin - are you able to check what kind/type of machine are licensed with my SU18 license?)
I can only show the dates and the MAC addresses of the machines. I will sen you a message, in the hope that the activation dates may remind you of which machine it must have been.
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