Authorization error. Your credentials may be expired or invalid-please help

[TorkelRunarson]

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Question

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Copilot in GitHub

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I have just renewed my monthly subscription to GitHub copilot and I am getting an Authorization error message whenever I try to continue an ongoing session: Authorization error. Your credentials may be expired or invalid. (Request ID: 4BD6:4DCDD:6C1D95:755AE6:6ABE5913) can someone help me resolve this please?

[kurupdevs]

Renewing your subscription does not refresh the token cached in your editor, so the IDE keeps trying with the old expired one. In VS Code, open the command palette and run GitHub Copilot: Sign Out, then sign back in and restart VS Code. That pulls a fresh token tied to your renewed subscription. It is also worth checking github.com/settings/copilot to make sure the plan actually shows as active, since a renewal can take a little while to take effect. If the error is still there after that, it would help to know which editor you are using.