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I don't know why the weird firmware date on mine. I wondered if my drive had been flashed by the vendor,

A lot of drives (mainly LG/Asus) have the firmware date a century ahead. They say "2117" but mean "2017".

There's an entire topic on it with links and such.

You can re-enter the current key, which will work through the end of the month, if you wish to rip now. Not everything has to wait...

The _NNN names change according to what you have set as your minimum time; it's a count of how many possible hits for however many seconds you set. My numbers at 30 seconds minimum would be different from someone with a default of 120 seconds minimum, or 1200 seconds, or ???.

Flashing isn't being asked for: The key to the disk isn't known to your machine yet, and it cannot download the latest keys to find it.

Automatic HK downloading is disabled or failed.

Depends on what you mean. If you are ripping Blurays, it lasts for 30 days at a time, after which you need to re-enter it to turn it on for the next 30 days (or when it expires). During that time, you will get a notice telling you how many days you have left when you start a BD.

The amount of automatic naming depends on your sources. DVDs, not so much. BD and above, more likely, but episode-based disks will still need work. For season disks, if you name the FIRST file (actually, the disk name), that gets copied to the rest, and you can then edit that quickly. But, it's stil...

And you can tell MakeMKV to not select titles shorter than a certain size, which can be set pretty high.

Also, have you used the RIGHT-click, Deselect All option yet?

This may be an issue with MacOS trying to protect you... Just because you deleted something, doesn't mean you REALLY wanted to delete it, after all. On another forum, a user was trying to figure out why his drive was hundreds of gigabytes short on space, and was thinking of reformatting it, only to ...

Are you asking if the person is going to upload an image of the disk, which would be illegal?

knowing some information about the disk would help. Especially the log from the rip attempt.

If you tell MakeMKV to ask about individually attaching to drives, you can run multiple copies without the usual issues of interference.

Is that what you're seeing on the Mac or on Windows? I don't have a Mac available to me at present, so I can't see what 1.18.x displays, but on Win7, the box looks quite different. There should be an "About" entry after "Online Help". But the "Register" option should no...

Contact support@makemkv.com and give Mike the information. He's the only one with keys

It should be in your Mac copy, under "Help->Register". The entry field has the current key in it, which you can copy to the new install.

Probably easiest by Copy->PasteToEmail and CopyFromEmail->PasteToWindowsVersion