BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Trouble with BDS2006 Trial License          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> C++ Builder (Non-Technical) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message James Gibbons Guest Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:03 am    Post subject: Trouble with BDS2006 Trial License I downloaded the trial and installed it to a clean VMware Win XP SP2 PC. It doesn't seem to see the trial license file I placed in my user directory and asks for a username and password. I have NTFS security for the license file set to myself and SYSTEM with full control. Not sure what is going on here. Perhaps it doesn't like VMware but I haven't had this problem with other software. I started BDS2006 first without the trial license having forgot about it and then copied it in and tried again. Was that a mistake? Anyone having trouble getting the trial to work? James Gibbons Back to top James Gibbons Guest Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:03 am    Post subject: Re: Trouble with BDS2006 Trial License James Gibbons wrote: Quote: directory and asks for a username and password. I have NTFS security for Minor correction: asks for serial number and authorization key. Back to top Markcr Guest Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:03 am    Post subject: Re: Trouble with BDS2006 Trial License Have you copied the file to the correct location? In my case, the location is C:\Documents and Settings\marko Did you put the file in My Documents instead? "James Gibbons" <"james at ventek-inc.com"> wrote in message news:440243f7$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: I downloaded the trial and installed it to a clean VMware Win XP SP2 PC. It doesn't seem to see the trial license file I placed in my user directory and asks for a username and password. I have NTFS security for the license file set to myself and SYSTEM with full control. Not sure what is going on here. Perhaps it doesn't like VMware but I haven't had this problem with other software. I started BDS2006 first without the trial license having forgot about it and then copied it in and tried again. Was that a mistake? Anyone having trouble getting the trial to work? James Gibbons Back to top Nakahara, Takashi Guest Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Trouble with BDS2006 Trial License Quote: I started BDS2006 first without the trial license having forgot about it and then copied it in and tried again. Was that a mistake? When BDS is executed for the first time, BDS makes two 'hidden' attribute folders in "x:\Documents and Settings\<UserName>". The one is ".borland". One more is Folder of a random name to begin with ".". When you delete these folders, a problem may be solved. "James Gibbons" <"james at ventek-inc.com"> wrote in message news:440243f7$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: I downloaded the trial and installed it to a clean VMware Win XP SP2 PC. It doesn't seem to see the trial license file I placed in my user directory and asks for a username and password. I have NTFS security for the license file set to myself and SYSTEM with full control. Not sure what is going on here. Perhaps it doesn't like VMware but I haven't had this problem with other software. I started BDS2006 first without the trial license having forgot about it and then copied it in and tried again. Was that a mistake? Anyone having trouble getting the trial to work? James Gibbons Back to top James Gibbons Guest Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Trouble with BDS2006 Trial License Markcr wrote: Quote: Have you copied the file to the correct location? In my case, the location is C:\Documents and Settings\marko It is in the correct place. I suspect the item below will fix it. Will try ASAP. Back to top Nakahara, Takashi Guest Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Trouble with BDS2006 Trial License It seems to have been my misunderstanding... I tested it. When I deleted a folder, BDS started normally. But BDS started normally when I put a license file there without deleting a folder. "James Gibbons" <"james at ventek-inc.com"> wrote in message news:44032b8a$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: Nakahara, Takashi wrote: I started BDS2006 first without the trial license having forgot about it and then copied it in and tried again. Was that a mistake? When BDS is executed for the first time, BDS makes two 'hidden' attribute folders in "x:\Documents and Settings\<UserName>". The one is ".borland". One more is Folder of a random name to begin with ".". When you delete these folders, a problem may be solved. No, that didn't work either. I may just try the uninstall/install again. Perhaps the license file must be present during install. James Gibbons Back to top James Gibbons Guest Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Trouble with BDS2006 Trial License Nakahara, Takashi wrote: Quote: I started BDS2006 first without the trial license having forgot about it and then copied it in and tried again. Was that a mistake? When BDS is executed for the first time, BDS makes two 'hidden' attribute folders in "x:\Documents and Settings\<UserName>". The one is ".borland". One more is Folder of a random name to begin with ".". When you delete these folders, a problem may be solved. No, that didn't work either. I may just try the uninstall/install again. Perhaps the license file must be present during install. James Gibbons Back to top James Gibbons Guest Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Trouble with BDS2006 Trial License Nakahara, Takashi wrote: Quote: It seems to have been my misunderstanding... I tested it. When I deleted a folder, BDS started normally. But BDS started normally when I put a license file there without deleting a folder. "James Gibbons" <"james at ventek-inc.com"> wrote in message news:44032b8a$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Nakahara, Takashi wrote: I started BDS2006 first without the trial license having forgot about it and then copied it in and tried again. Was that a mistake? When BDS is executed for the first time, BDS makes two 'hidden' attribute folders in "x:\Documents and Settings\<UserName>". The one is ".borland". One more is Folder of a random name to begin with ".". When you delete these folders, a problem may be solved. No, that didn't work either. I may just try the uninstall/install again. Perhaps the license file must be present during install. James Gibbons No go with uninstall/install. I noticed the license manager tool and tried to import the trial license file. It didn't like it at all. Perhaps another complete install on a fresh Win XP. Not looking forward to this. This stuff should just work like all the other trials I have tested. Thanks for the suggestions anyway. I will report back on the complete new install. Back to top James Gibbons Guest Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:03 am    Post subject: Re: Trouble with BDS2006 Trial License James Gibbons wrote: Quote: I downloaded the trial and installed it to a clean VMware Win XP SP2 PC. It doesn't seem to see the trial license file I placed in my user directory and asks for a username and password. I have NTFS security for the license file set to myself and SYSTEM with full control. Not sure what is going on here. Perhaps it doesn't like VMware but I haven't had this problem with other software. I started BDS2006 first without the trial license having forgot about it and then copied it in and tried again. Was that a mistake? Anyone having trouble getting the trial to work? James Gibbons No luck doing a fresh install on another copy of VMware Win XP SP2 machine on another computer. This is just plain not working. Perhaps I got a bad license file. Guess I will wait a few more months before sending Borland some upgrade money. BCB6 works just fine for what I need. James Gibbons Back to top Chief Guest Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:03 am    Post subject: Re: Trouble with BDS2006 Trial License James, I too had the exact same problem. I uninstalled/reinstalled and put the license file in C:\Documents and Settings\"UserName" per instructions but kept getting the same prompt for Serial Number and Authorization Key. After much frustration, I copied the file to every directory under C:\Documents and Settings\ as I have a another user on this machine with their username under that directory as well. I wish I could tell you exactly which one the trial finally picked up (to tired of doing them one at a time), but it pulled it from one of those directories and finally started. I'm not sure if you're setup is the same as mine, but I have two other folders with my UserName and a suffix attached - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName.NA and C:\Documents and Settings\UserName~NA. I suspect that it picked it up from one of those, although it might have recognized it under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users. Who knows, but it's up and running finally. The only problem is that it took 5 days to figure it out and now I only have 25 days remaining on my license. First time I"ve had trouble with a Borland trial. Hope this helps. "James Gibbons" <"james at ventek-inc.com"> wrote in message news:4403a359$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: James Gibbons wrote: I downloaded the trial and installed it to a clean VMware Win XP SP2 PC. It doesn't seem to see the trial license file I placed in my user directory and asks for a username and password. I have NTFS security for the license file set to myself and SYSTEM with full control. Not sure what is going on here. Perhaps it doesn't like VMware but I haven't had this problem with other software. I started BDS2006 first without the trial license having forgot about it and then copied it in and tried again. Was that a mistake? Anyone having trouble getting the trial to work? James Gibbons No luck doing a fresh install on another copy of VMware Win XP SP2 machine on another computer. This is just plain not working. Perhaps I got a bad license file. Guess I will wait a few more months before sending Borland some upgrade money. BCB6 works just fine for what I need. James Gibbons Back to top James Gibbons Guest Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:03 am    Post subject: Re: Trouble with BDS2006 Trial License Chief wrote: Quote: James, I too had the exact same problem. I uninstalled/reinstalled and put the license file in C:\Documents and Settings\"UserName" per instructions but kept getting the same prompt for Serial Number and Authorization Key. After much frustration, I copied the file to every directory under C:\Documents and Settings\ as I have a another user on this machine with their username under that directory as well. I wish I could tell you exactly which one the trial finally picked up (to tired of doing them one at a time), but it pulled it from one of those directories and finally started. I'm not sure if you're setup is the same as mine, but I have two other folders with my UserName and a suffix attached - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName.NA and C:\Documents and Settings\UserName~NA. I suspect that it picked it up from one of those, although it might have recognized it under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users. Who knows, but it's up and running finally. The only problem is that it took 5 days to figure it out and now I only have 25 days remaining on my license. First time I"ve had trouble with a Borland trial. Hope this helps. Hey Chief, Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't help. But you got me thinking. I ran the Sysinternals File Monitor program to see what bds.exe was up to. It clearly opened and read my license file in the correct directory. It also tried to open a lot of other directories starting with a period that were not present before opening .ghz-Inc2006-zm. It then does some back and forth operations between files in the .borland and ..ghz-Inc2006-zm directories before it gives up and opens the registration program bdsreg.exe. It didn't look in any other user directories. There is clearly something wrong with the way it works because it read my file but didn't activate the trial. Thanks for your help anyway. 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