So i just installed the patch onto a coppied file of lfs, and didnt think it would need the unlocking becuase i had already unlocked it before. I bunrned up a unlock on accident. Wanted to know if this happend to anyone else and if there is a way to get back the accidental unlcoked key.

Quote from Scawen :

About half of you do need to unlock, because of a fix in the unlocking system. I've just raised everyone's unlocks available to 2 right now, in case you do need to unlock.

:Kick_Can_

i appericate your promptness of reply to my thread and post of concern.

Greatly appericated.

somewhere between U28 and U35 needed a re-unlock (i cant remember when it was)

as for getting another unlock, .. use the search, many a threads have come up about the same situation

Everyone was given an extra unlock before the patch was released so you have nothing to worry about...

AFAIK one extra unlock is given to you every month but the maximum number of unlocks is 2 or 3, so if you waste one you get one more next month, is that right?

Yes. When purchasing LFS you get 3, 1 to unlock and two spares. After that the maximum is two. When you use an unlock the amount of unlocks is raised up to 2 unlocks every month.

so, if i am getting you right i have to do another unlock? i can`t even remember how the first worked ... lfs has been a marvel of consistency and non-problem-making product ever since i first unlocked in - i guess - february. now i have installed the v-patch (last u version i guess 22 or 23) and when i want to unlock, all it says is "file mistake"? what`s wrong? anyone have a guess?