Since companies have different policies in case of theft and loss of dongles I just would like to know:
- In case of Theft do I need to insure the dongle for the whole software value or just the dongle value ?
- The same about Loss ?
Since I probably need the dongle for Backburner rendering too I have to leave the dongle in the office over night. Now there are insurance companies that require dongles the be in a safe when the office is closed. So be warned…
Funny you say this…My dongle for a program called APDesign was stolen years ago from my truck. Someone broke my windows and took a BANK ZIPPER file thingy…It was filled with papers and notes…But no information about me…It held a couple of receipts but that was it AND my dongle…LOL…I guess he thought it was filled with money. So when I turned in the form to the insurance company…they freaked…the program was $3200 back then…I had to get a letter from the company stating that they would not give me the dongle unless I bought another one…and I could not use the software without it…The insurance company did not understand what it was and since I had the software still..They figured I was out nothing…But when I faxed them the letter or I mean the COMPANY faxed them the letter…They paid in pull minus the deductible of course…But of course as things go…That was when I was drawing house plans on my own back in the day and I had since moved on from that type of work months later after it happened…And I never bought the program again…So Yeehaw…it worked out…But I would defitnely insure it before hand…So they KNOW what it is.
If you need a new dongle for V-Ray for whatever reason (stolen or lost), you will only need to pay for a new dongle, not for an entirely new license. I’m not sure how that would work with insurance companies though…
Best regards,
Vlado
Thanks…good policy. I don’t have to change my insururance then…
Wow, am I the only one that is going to risk asking the dreaded dongle question? OK, here goes. When am I going to get my dongle??!! Let the hate mail begin. Remember, Trick started it.
The answer to that is “sometime soon”, but I myself can’t tell you when. It might be worth to call the office and have someone answer 
Best regards,
Vlado
I bought my copy of Vray from Ideate in SanFrancisco, and they just shipped out my dongle last week. It cost me roughly $40 US for the dongle, plus shipping and handling to get it sent up here to Canada.