UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred  after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
I'd like to use APP without connecting to my wireless Internet router due to processes that have interrupted stacks and data limitations in my rural area. I know I must be connected initially to verify my account, but can I disconnect after being verified?
Yes APP needs to be activated, but can start offline.
@vincent-mod Thank you, Vincent. I'm glad for that at least, but requiring Internet connectivity at all is very unfortunate from my perspective. I have to manage data usage closely because of my Internet data constraints. I won't be able to use APP for 1/2 month because I'm out of data. I'll have to use PixInsight to stack instead since it doesn't require a verification via Internet connectivity in order to stack.
It would be very nice if this validation requirement would be changed so we no longer require Internet connectivity to begin using APP.
At the start this is required, because of the unfortunate risk (we've seen this a lot) of illegal activity if we wouldn't do this. However, to be clear, this is required once. You can use APP offline and it uses very little data to do this.
Susan
I suspect there is some miscommunication here. Vincent has said "Yes APP needs to be activated, but can start offline." When Vincent says "activated" I believe he is referring to the one off process that is needed when APP is installed. It is not needed when starting or using APP. APP will start without an internet connection. I have verified this about 5 mins ago (version 1083.4).
However, if internet access is available at startup then APP will verify the licence each time, which I imagine would use very little data.
JC
