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cranioscopical:
The current situation
I have a clipboard manager that is a long-time favourite of mine.
For the past 15+ years I paid for upgrades to multiple licenses as it changed and improved.
It still works just fine.

The Problem
There is a lot of data filed away in that thing and it's difficult tedious to retrieve.
Without warning, the developer disappeared some time during the past year or two.
Activation over the web is the only way to make a new installation of this software work.
So, the next time I upgrade to a new machine…  guess what?


There's rather too much of this online activation stuff these days for me to feel comfortable.

It's one thing for a giant like Adobe to do this, there's a good chance that they'll be around in future in some form or other. It's quite a different proposition when a small company adopts the practice.

[edit to clarify "difficult"]

timns:
I absolutely agree with this, and have been bitten by this very problem recently myself. The least the developer could do would be to Open Source the software and hopefully someone would take it over.

Chris - if you'd like a hand extracting the data, I'm willing to give it a go.

cranioscopical:
if you'd like a hand extracting the data, I'm willing to give it a go
-timns (January 29, 2011, 03:08 PM)
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What a gentleman, thank you for the offer!

I'll write something to do the job, it's just so damned annoying!

Renegade:
Which one is it?

cranioscopical:
Which one is it? -Renegade
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