There are times when you will need to re-initialise your licence. For example if you have renewed your expiring licence or you have purchased a new licence after you have had an evaluation licence. Here we take you through the steps to re-initialise your Stata licence.
Before you re-initialise your licence you will need to make sure you have the correct licence edition installed. Sometimes you will have one edition installed but your new licence is a different edition. You will be unable to re-initialise your licence if the wrong edition is installed.
To change the installed edition on a Windows computer you can either uninstall Stata and then re-install it, or you can run the Stata.exe install file with Stata still installed and select “Modify” to modify your installation. Either way you will need to select the correct edition to install as it is listed on your new licence file.
To change the installed edition on a Mac computer you will need to re-run the installer and choose to install the correct edition as listed on your new licence file.
If you need to re-download the Stata install file, go to https://download.stata.com/download/. The username and password to download Stata are on the email from Survey Design and Analysis Services that you received when you first purchased your licence. If you have upgraded or renewed your licence you may not have been provided new download codes. You can request new codes by emailing us at sales@surveydesign.com.au.
Note: Stata installs different editions as completely separate applications. This means you can have 3 different applications of Stata on your computer if you were to install all 3 editions. If you have an edition of Stata installed that is not your currently purchased edition I suggest removing it to avoid confusion. You can just delete the unused application, but you will need an administrative account to do so. If you run your old edition with your new licence it will give you an error and will not allow you to use the application.
You will need to re-initialise your licence if your current licence has expired or if you have changed your licence edition. You can re-initialise using the following steps:
Close Stata if you have it open.
Open File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac) and navigate to the location of your Stata installation. For Windows, Stata is installed at C:\Program Files\StataVR (where VR is the version number) and for Mac, Stata is installed at ~\Applications\Stata
Find the file stata.lic and delete it.
Run Stata. It will ask for your name, organisation, serial number, authorization, and code.
Enter your name, you can leave organisation blank if this is a personal licence. Then enter your serial number, authorization, and code from your licence file.
NOTE: please copy and paste your serial number, authorization and code. This ensures you enter the information correctly. If you choose to type these in yourself and you get an error saying the licence information is incorrect, this means you entered the information incorrectly.
If you are having trouble re-initialising your licence please email us for assistance at sales@surveydesign.com.au.