Sometimes, users accidentally save the file as ansyslmd.lic.txt . Windows often hides known extensions, so it looks like ansyslmd.lic to you, but the License Manager can't read it because it’s actually a text file.
Ansys license files are strict. If you edit the .lic file on a Windows machine using Notepad, it might add hidden carriage returns ( \r\n ). When the Linux-based license daemon (running on Windows or Linux) reads the file, it can break the parsing of increment lines. Ansyslmd.lic Error No Valid Increment Lines Were Found In
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