Your licence
Applies to all Sentiora applications
A Sentiora licence is a single line of text. You paste it into the application once, and it is yours — checked on your own computer, by the program itself, without asking anyone for permission.
What you receive
Not an account. Not a password. Not an installer that phones home. One line, looking roughly like this:
SDML1.eyJzbiI6IlNETS0yNkgtNEsyUSIsImVkIjoiZnVsbCIsImV4cCI6bnVsbH0.MEQCIH2n
Three parts, separated by dots. The first says which product it belongs to. The middle carries the licence number and the edition. The last is a signature that only Sentiora can produce, and that your copy of the application can check on its own.
Your name is not in it. The middle part holds a licence number and an edition, and nothing else — no name, no email, no machine identifier. That is deliberate: it means a licence can be made before anyone has bought it, and that the file sitting in a shop cannot leak anything about anybody.
DocPilot is the one exception, and it says so plainly: its licence is tied to the buyer's email address, so a key that gets passed around can be traced back to whoever passed it. Only a scrambled form of the address is stored, never the address itself.
Putting it in
Copy the whole line
From the first character to the last, including the dots. It is long and it will wrap onto several lines in your email — that is fine, it is still one line. Select all of it.
Open the licence window in the application
In DiskManager and OpticalBurn Suite it sits in the main window. In ComicBubble and DocPilot it is under the settings. You are looking for a box to paste into and a button that says Activate.
Paste and press Activate
The application checks the signature itself, on your computer. It either turns on, or it tells you exactly what is wrong with the line you pasted.
That is the whole of it
No account to create, no email to confirm, nothing to re-enter next month. Keep the line somewhere you will find it again — it is the only thing that proves the licence is yours.
What each application does with it
| Application | How it checks |
|---|---|
| DiskManager | Entirely on your computer. It never asks a server whether you are allowed to run. |
| OpticalBurn Suite | Entirely on your computer, the same way. |
| ComicBubble | The Personal edition works on your computer alone. Studio and Enterprise cover several machines, so those count how many are in use and need an internet connection to do it. |
| DocPilot | On your computer, against the email address the licence was bought with. |
Changing computers
For DiskManager, OpticalBurn Suite, ComicBubble Personal and DocPilot: install the application on the new computer and paste the same line. Nothing needs releasing first, and nothing needs asking. The licence is not tied to the machine.
For ComicBubble Studio and Enterprise, where the number of machines is what you are paying for, releasing the old machine frees the slot for the new one.
If you lose the line
Write to onlineharddrivemail@gmail.com from the address you bought with, and say which product it was. There is no automatic recovery page, because there is no Sentiora account system to look you up in — a person reads it and sends the line back.
Licences that stop working
A licence can be withdrawn. It happens when one is refunded, charged back, or found published somewhere for anyone to take.
Where it applies, it works like this: the application reads a short list of withdrawn licence numbers from sentiora.dev, once a day. If it cannot reach it — no connection, or the site is down — nothing happens and nothing is said. The application carries on working. It is not a check you have to pass; it is a list that arrives, or does not.
It does not apply everywhere, and it is worth saying which. DiskManager and ComicBubble read such a list. OpticalBurn Suite does not check at all in the version shipping today. DocPilot has no list by design: its licence is tied to your email instead, so a key that gets passed around is traceable rather than revocable.
This is not the only thing any Sentiora application connects to — DiskManager looks for updates, and its AI features and DocPilot's reach the provider you configure. The privacy page lists every outbound connection, one by one.
If yours is on that list and you think it should not be, write to the address above. Nothing is decided by a machine.
What is not collected
- No account, no password, no sign-in.
- No usage tracking, no analytics, no advertising identifier in the applications. (The website counts visits; the privacy page says exactly what that means.)
- No hardware fingerprint — except the machine count in ComicBubble Studio and Enterprise, which is the thing being sold.
- Nothing is sent when the licence is entered. The check happens where you are standing.
The full account of what every application connects to is on the privacy page.