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  • 17-02-2006 9:50am
    #1
    Jim10000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭


    How can an application I downloaded "know" that I have downloaded a version of it before?

    There's a free trial version of an app available online but it has a time limit. When the time limit runs out, obviously the owners want you to buy the full version, which I have done, but I tried to download the trial version again and it wont work because I've already used my alloted time. How does it know?


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  • #2
    Hobart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Hobart


    There's no windows registry on a Mac :D. Are you sure you are just downloading it, and not not installing it from the site itself? Make sure you are downloading it into a different folder and quit all active applications, if any are running.
    [edit] Nice Delete[/edit]


  • #3
    Jim10000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭Jim10000


    no, thanks for that, i'm sure i'm downloading it. Then it installs and when I try to run it a window pops up telling me i've got "0.0 hours of the demo left".

    So i assumed i could start again and download the demo and get another 8 hours, but no.?!?!


  • #4
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Try clearing your preferences.


  • #5
    Jim10000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭Jim10000


    no joy.
    anybody?


  • #6
    Hugh_C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭Hugh_C


    Jim10000 wrote:
    no joy.
    anybody?


    probably writes an invisible, tiny text file somewhere on your filesystem. hard to find unless you know what you're looking for. can't help other than that, sorry. Do you know Terminal? You could brushing up on your unix commands...


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  • #7
    babypink
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭babypink


    whats the app?


  • #8
    edunon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭edunon


    There are some apps that will actually trace any change/copy/delete of any file in your mac everytime you run, allowing you to know what an app does when it runs or install, very handy sometimes ;)


  • #9
    Jim10000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭Jim10000


    The application is Sketchup, and sorry for being an idiot Edunon, but I don't get your post - I'm not particularly computer literate - could you elaborate please?


  • #10
    edunon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭edunon


    Have a look at Desinstaler
    and fseventer and see if they can do it for you.

    fseventer is quite impresive


  • #11
    babypink
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭babypink


    pm sent.....let me know how u get on


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  • #12
    Gigiwagga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭Gigiwagga


    Two things you might try 1st clear all plist files relating to the app from your preferences folder and application support folder. 2nd temporarily set your clock/time back to before you downloaded it before, sometimes that works. 1st one is more likely to succeed, worked for me on lots of apps. 3rd set up a different user name.


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