Happy New Year!! At 14:05:58 -0000 Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Ben Hall <benj@...> wrote: >Hallvard Tangeraas <northstar2010@y...> wrote: [.....] >SoundSurfer was the cheaper librarian only version, SoundDiver was >the more expensive librarian + editors version. (There exists only >SoundDiver now). Thus my assumptions were correct :-) Actually there is no Sounddiver either as far as I know, for the Atari ST platform, but you probably mean that there is no Soundsurfer at all for any platform (it only existed for the Atari ST, didn't it?). >> -------------------------------------- >> You have already installed the program. >> You will need the master disk to run this copy. >> [OK] >> ----------------------------------- > >The original owner has either a) lost his authorisations on his >computer - this happened to me. Ouch!!!!! :-( >I sent the master disks back to >Germany and got more authorisations, but within 5 minutes of >reinstalling the new authorisation it had been lost again due to an >installer bug. Oh no :-( >I couldn't be bothered to keep sending disks back to >Germany so I just leave the SoundDiver master disk in the floppy >drive permanently. But that's fine as long as nothing bad happens to your original disk. I'd hate for my one and only copy of my software investments to stop working, that's why I'd really prefer a dongle instead of this kind of copy protection. >Or b) he didn't transfer his authorisations from his hard drive back >onto the master floppy before selling the program - in effect, he >still has a usable copy on his machine. I'll ask him when he gets back in a few days time. Hopefully he'll have the program installed on a harddisk somewhere, but if not -what do I do? Is it possible to get any help from Emagic? I don't know exactly how this copy protection scheme works, but it seems that the "master" disk (disk 1) contains a special file of some sort with the serial number etc. and in order to install a self-contained working copy on a harddisk you have to move that file from the floppy (i.e. remove the key from the floppy) and transfer it over to the harddisk. Correct? If this is right it seems like a rather risky way for the end-user since I read that even just a defragmentation will wipe it away, and what about a harddisk crash? I respect and understand why there is software copy protection, but I find it hard to understand a scheme which makes the investement for the legitimate owner so unsafe and troublesome. I just want to use the software, not fiddle around with installment problems. Getting back to the installation.... I had another go at it, but still suffer from problems! Here's what I did: 1)removed all the existing Sounddiver files from the harddisk 2)installed Sounddiver 1.5e from the original Emagic disks. So far so good. No error messages. Just the mentioned message telling me that I'll have to stick the "Master disk" into the drive each time). 3)I try running the program -it works fine. 4)I decide to upgrade it to the latest version, so I take out the first of many Sounddiver 2.06 disks, and double click "install.prg". I then select "update". 5)I'm asked to select the existing (previously installed) "diver.prg" on the harddisk with the file-selector, so that's what I do. 6)The drives start whirring as the installment starts. All's fine... 7)but then I get an error message.... At first the floppy disk is read and the progress display says: "Reading diver.prg". Then after a short while I get an error message saying: "An error occured during deinstallation" [Abort] [Continue]". The progress display in the background reads "Deinstalling diver.prg", so apparently it has something to do with some sort of deinstallation, but what's to deinstall???? If you're correct, the previous owner has the key which allows me to install a self-contained version (or it's been lost), so now what? Was this the error message you got as well, which caused you to loose your key? To rule out the different causes of the problem I've tried updating from both the version 2.06 disks and the 1.57 disks, and to simplify it even more I've taken care to only select the sounddiver program and not anything else (modules etc.). Same error message no matter what I do. Hallvard -- Hyperlink Launchpad: <http://www.crosswinds.net/~hall/> Atari Launchpad : <http://launchpad.atari.org>; Notator/Creator SL : <http://www.crosswinds.net/~notator/> _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com