Macromedia Studio 2004MX - Licensing Problems

[Crispin]

Hi all,

 

I'm having a really aggravating problem with Macromedia Studio 2004 MX.

 

Firstly, this issue seems to spring up completely randomly and has affected five of our rooms, but mysteriously others are OK.

 

If I start up fireworks and dreamweaver everything runs ok and they open as expected. When I try and open Flash though Im greeted with a "Your Trial has Ended" Dialogue box. This can sometimes come up with two different boxes, one giving me two options (continue trial and enter key) and another with one option (Enter key).

 

I've WDS'd a row of machines in the afflicted room and the problem is still there.

 

This is happening on two seperate images, so I don't think its a badly built image. I think its more likely a bad package.

 

Anyway, if I then enter the correct serial, it attempts to boots, gets to the splash screen and then nothing happens, the program fails to load.

 

If I restart and try again, the same thing happens. This makes Flash completely unusable but the rest of the programs are fine.

 

Anyone had a similar problem? This is really annoying me now. Thanks in advance

[john]

There is a patch somewhere on the Adobe site for the Serial Number being lost problem, you apply the patch (came out in about Sept last year I think) and it seems to cure it.

[Face-Man]

I had this all the time the patch only seem to fix it for an individual user as the need for the number appears to be linked to the users profile not the computers. I've now upgraded so it is not an issue but as it was driving me mad I had to give the teacher the serial number and said I recommend that you type it in when it pops up in class but if the number happens to get accidentally put on the whiteboard for the students to enter I don't want to know about it.....

[rush_tech]

Have you ran the serialization hot fix on your mx2004 machines?

[Crispin]

Does anybody have a link for this patch? I cant seem to find it anywhere after doing a few google searches. Maybe just using rubbish search terms not sure...

[Crispin]

you ran the serialization hot fix on your mx2004 machines?

 

Ah thank you!

I will try this patch

[Spitfire]

When we had this problem, it got so bad the package became almost unusable, in the end we had to bite the bullet and upgrade to CS2 and now cs3.

[amfony]

we had this problem but i got a different - and valid fix.

 

1 - we dont wds we ghost

2 - on the base image activate any product EXCEPT flash

3 - do not open flash ever ... repeat ... ever on the base image. On first startup flash wll write some license stuff in the registry which doesnt ghost well.

 

4 - problem solved

5 - thank anthony (if it workss for you haha)

 

i got fix from macromedia at the time, obviously now adobe.

[Crispin]

Tried the patch as mentioned above. Did install ok, but still having the same problem.

 

The problem itself isn't entering the serial number, but afterwards when Flash tries to load, it gets to the splash screen and then doesn't get any further. Can't see any macromedia processes running except macromedia_licensing.exe.

I may have to sort out a new image

[jason2234]

All of a sudden i have the exact same problem after months of running flash mx without a problem.

If i log in as a teacher or a student i can't get flash to work. The only way to get it to go is to "run as" the program with an admin account.

 

I've tried lots of thing to no avail so far but i'll post if i find anything. The link on here didn't work either

 

Jason