BIG Problem with Personal Use Renewal on MAC-OS Mojave and Below

[nocheinerunde]

Dear Friends,

I am running Fusion 360 for Personal use on Mojave.

The background:

I stick to Mojave because of APFS, Apple's filesystem

on newer OS designed for SSD exclusively.

APFS runs extremely slow on classical harddisks, even Fusion Drives,

like mine. Boot up - normally a matter of 15 seconds - can take up to 7 minutes.

Even Mojave is APFS only but can be tricked to run perfectly on Mac OS Extended,

the defunct format for classical harddisks.

Now to Fusion:

So, I am a happy camper running 2.0.12392 on Mojave 10.14.

Not supported anymore since March 2022 but running stable.

But I will need to renew my license in three weeks and we all know the procedure:

Re-Installing Fusion 360 to do so.

And this will obviously not work as my machine is too "old"!

Which by the way is ridiculous - as a personal user there is

no need to run the fastest machine and newest system.

I even do not need support on new program versions.

It would be great if we started a petition to ask Autodesk

to change the renewal process by just prolonging the license

without the need for downloading.

Best, Herbert

[lance.carocci · Accepted solution]

Hi @nocheinerunde, 

Renewing your license does not require the application, let alone reinstalling it. You should be able to complete the process entirely from the website here: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/personal

You may be required to click Get Started to complete the renewal process, which also initializes the download, however, installation is not required to complete the license refresh. More details can be found here.

[nocheinerunde]

Dear Lance,

thank you very, very much! This worked!

But I advise to update the instructions, as they

give the impression Fusion 360 itself gets downloaded / updated.

Instead a client installer is downloaded - which indeed is better

as the Fusion 360 installation itself is untouched during license renewal.

All the best,

Herbert