Load MatLab with Network License when Network is Unavailable

I have a computer with MatLab 2018a.

It's license is based on Network (edu - university license) and was moved to a different location where this network is no longer avaliable.

I want to load the MatLab on that computer to copy files and setting that exists there but am unable to open it due to the license network issue.

Anything that I can do to manually load it w/o this network? I don't need to actually use it (old version anyway..) but I need to see the programs and it's files that I have there in order to set my new computers with ver 2022a/b in a way that we used to work with them

[Walter Roberson]

If the computer can be temporarily moved to network access then with the cooperation of the license administrator you can Borrow a license, and take the system back to off-network

[Ayelet]

Thank you for your answer.

Thought about that but it is hard to get back to that location, long drive.

Trying to see if there other ways before all the way there just for that.

[Walter Roberson]

@Ayelet

Well, as @Jan indicates, you do not need to start MATLAB in order to copy files.

.m files are plain text files, as are .mdl files.

.mlx and .slx files are zip archives of text XML (using the same standard that is used for .xlsx files. which are also zip'd XML)

[Ayelet]

@Walter Roberson Yes, That's clear. But since I know nothing about MATLAB nor about the way it was used where I work now I do not know which files I need to copy. (and whether they'll work with version 2022).

I would also say that MATLAB was used here in a less-traditional way - it was used purely on videos and not plain (but they didn't use any location recognition function that MATLAB have)

[Walter Roberson]

See https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/259627-how-do-i-activate-matlab-or-other-mathworks-products-without-an-internet-connection#answer_202773

[Ayelet]

@Walter Roberson I will give it a try tomorrow.

Huge thank you!

Answer 1

[Jan]

A network license is designed to work inside the specified network only. This is its nature. So you are asking for a break of the license. Of course you do not get instructions for this.

You do not have to run Matlab to see the M-Files. The folders belonging to the path are stored in the pathdef.m file, which is eitehr inside Matlab's installation folder or in the User folder - under Windows e.g. 'C:\Users\Jan\Documents\MATLAB'.

So what does "see the programs" mean? Why does copying which files require a running license? You do not have to start Matlab to copy files.

[Ayelet]

Thank you for the reply.

Of course I don't expect to break the license. I still have a license, just from a different insitution. I thought there might be a way to do sort of hear-to-head change of the liecnse on this computer, or just have a very temporary way to run MATLAB on it.

I am new to this place and to MATLAB, never used it before.

It seems that those who worked here in the past sort of "pre-coded" functions on MATLAB. I only have a little bit of notes of the way they worked with it, but every thing I am trying to run in the command area cannot be find, is invalid, or empty. I wanted to see the old MATLAB to understand which files I need there, try work with it as it was worked with before, just to have an understanding of what I need it to do.

Thank you.

[Jan]

You are welcome. All you need is to copy the files inside the user defined folders to the new computer.

An option is to include your computer in the old network using a VPN connection. Most universities offer such an VPN connection.