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Shozam - Activation - Purchased but Shozam still shows "Free Trial"

David Green
posted this on November 18, 2011 12:53 pm

The program generally self activates when it runs for the first time. The Shozam window title bar should clearly identify if it is running in trial mode or in the edition you purchased. Here are some common related situations and how you can address them.

'TRIAL VERSION' SHOWS IN SHOZAM WINDOW TITLE BAR AND ACTIVATION TAB

If Shozam cannot connect to the activation server successfully, activation fails. In that case we do a manual activation of the program. For this, please provide us the following information:

  • Order ID (or email used at time of purchase)
  • Hardware number displayed on the activation tab in Step 1 of Shozam

We will then send you the Name and Key that you should enter on the Activation tab.

'FREE TRIAL' WATERMARK ON IMAGES

Once activated, you can still use any galleries you created using the trial version of Shozam. Note however that in order for Shozam to process those images again, it will need to find the original files at the same location from where you added them in the first place. Also, Shozam generates galleries in '\My Documents\My Shozam Trial Galleries\'. It is a good idea, once you have Shozam activated, to re-generate those galleries in '\My Documents\My Shozam Galleries\'. This is the default location for new galleries you create with an activated edition of Shozam.

'FREE TRIAL' SHOWS AS THE GALLERY TITLE

A gallery that was originally created with the free trial version of Shozam always has the following characteristics.

  • Gallery Title = FREE TRIAL (this appears on your gallery pages in the banner)
  • Page Title = FREE TRIAL (this is in the page HTML code and the web browser displays this in the window or tab title bar)
  • Gallery Location = C:/Documents and Settings/[USERNAME]/My Documents/My Shozam Trial Galleries

Once the gallery is modified using an activated copy of Shozam, user will generally change the Gallery Title. This will not change the Page Title. The solution is to save gallery to a new location, such as:

  • Gallery Location = C:/Documents and Settings/[USERNAME]/My Documents/My Shozam Galleries