Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Panther.

Are there compatibility issues?

[dragonlady7]

I just loaded up a demo of MX 2K4 the day before yesterday.
Yesterday, I installed Panther.

Now MX 2K4 doesn't work. (I click it to open it, the D appears in my dock, and then it disappears.)

I figure there are two possible issues, so I thought I'd ask here while I do my other troubleshooting.

1) The demo thinks I'm trying to haxor it, and has expired.

2) MX 2K4 isn't compatible with Panther.

Which do y'all think the problem is?
Anybody here running both with no problem?

<added>
Hmmm...
Macromedia claims they're two great tastes that taste great together, here [macromedia.com].
Google thinks I'm looking for fishing lures...

I'm thinking that Panther's resetting the network time during installation makes DW think I reset my clock so as not to expire the demo. So it thinks I've haxored it.
Any thoughts?
I guess that's the issue, but it freaking sucks-- I just started evaluating DW and I don't know yet if it's worth the dough I'll have to drop on it. </added>

[edited by: dragonlady7 at 3:04 pm (utc) on Oct. 25, 2003]

[john316]

MX demo puts a file somewhere to track the 30 day trial, if that file goes missing or is tampered with, no go. When you put a new system on, the file went missing or was changed.

With a new system you can probably just re-install mx and it should run.

[dragonlady7]

With a new system, I can't just re-install the demo. If I could just re-install a demo, they wouldn't offer the demo.

Oh, you mean I can just reinstall the previous version? I don't *have* MX. I don't have DW at all. I'm looking into purchasing it for the first time.
I've used MX on my Windows computer at work. But I've never used it on a Mac. I just spent 20 minutes looking at it and figuring out the different workspace, and had planned on using the demo period to evaluate if I wanted it.

Now I have two choices:
1) haxor the demo for real,
2) contact Macromedia for tech support.

I'm thinking 2 is going to be a freaking waste of time.

Oh, 3) buy the program.
But I hadn't decided yet if I wanted it! And you have to admit, it's a Damn Lot Of Money for something you're not sure whether you want.

[john316]

just re-install the mx demo

[dragonlady7]

Re-installed MX demo.
Wouldn't open; still thinks I'm trying to haxor it.

Deleted all files, started again.
Wouldn't open, still thinks I'm trying to haxor it.

Deleted *all* files. (This involved serious searching, and discovery of files in ten or eleven places, with gibberish names, hidden, with forged dates.)
Started again.
Opened, but demanded a serial number.

Deleted all files (scouring through system again).
Started again.
Opened, demanded my system password, I entered it, it demanded my system password, I entered it, it demanded my system password...

@#$()&%!

GoLive it is, then. Everyone I've spoken to has said MX 2004 is crap and not worth the price. I emailed them to tell them about my problem and I got a support number from them. I wanted to give the program a fair shot before agreeing that it was crap-- I mean, I really liked MX, as you can tell from various of my posts across this board. But if everyone says it's crap, and my demo broke at the slightest provocation, why am I going to give them the benefit of $400 worth of doubt?
I'm not. I also resent them for littering my system with hidden garbage files. I mean, these are down deep in the Unix layer of my OS. I do not like that they have forged dates, either. It just... I don't know, it pisses me off.