10.4: Use Retrospect Express update on an OEM drive

Sep 09, '05 08:38:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Tiger only hintI recently bought my son a Maxtor "OneTouch" drive to use to back up his iBook. One of the many great features of this drive is the inclusion of Retrospect Express. To my dismay, the version on the included install CD crashed every time I tried to run it -- it's not the Tiger-compatible version, it seems. So I downloaded the new, Tiger-compatible, version from Dantz's web site and it ran fine --- except it wanted the license number entered before you could do anything. I obviously didn't have the license number, since I couldn't get it from the CD version, which installed but wouldn't run.

The fix turned out to be pretty simple, although it took me quite a while to figure it out. On the install CD, there is a file called OEM.INI which contains the licensing information for the version of Retrospect included with the drive. All you need to do is copy this file into the Tiger-compatible application package that you have downloaded, and you're set. Hope this helps someone else.

[robg adds: As best as I can tell from Dantz's web site, this is a perfectly valid thing to do -- the Tiger update for Retrospect Express is a free download on the above-linked page...]

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