Force Recovery

SoftwareShield System Feature Guide > License Recovery > Force Recovery

## Force Recovery

Before reading the rest of this page, you should already understand the basics of license recovery. If not, please read License Recovery in this Feature Guide.

Force Recovery refers to a method your application can use to immediately force the recovery of a license. You should only use this function in extreme cases where you wish to compromise some degree security for ease of implementation and reduced support issues. Forcing recovery is not the recommended method to recover a license in an inconsistent state.

Forcing recovery is done simply by calling ForceRecover on the ClientProtector.

Although you only ever need to call this function if the license is in an inconsistent state, you can call it any time. When called, regardless of the license state, the license is immediately recovered. For specific details of what happens during a recovery, see License Recovery in this reference.

### More Information

Fore help on actually using the forced recovery, see ForceRecover in the SoftwareShield ClientProtector Reference.