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Activate BabelEdit temporarily / Unlimited trial
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As others have mentioned: | |
This workaround only works for versions 2.* | |
In other words: It's outdated and doesn't work anymore | |
Scroll down for community posts! | |
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Original gist: | |
Obviously for educative purposes only. | |
Furthermore, this DOESN'T activate BabelEdit permanently. | |
If you like the software, buy it, the devs deserve it. | |
Since I have no money to buy it, I discovered a workaround for unlimited trials. | |
It's quite a annoying workaround, but ... it works! | |
Firstly go to "c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\" and open the "hosts" file in Notepad/Notepad++/VSCode/Sublime/Atom/whatever as admin (if you don't open it as admin, it won't let you save it). | |
Add this line at the end of the file: | |
127.0.0.1 secure.codeandweb.com | |
Now save and close it. Reboot your computer for it to apply the DNS changes that we've just done. | |
If you've already used your trial, open up REGEDIT (Windows+R, type regedit, Enter) | |
Delete this entire key: | |
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\code-and-web.de\BabelEdit\licensing | |
Now open up BabelEdit, click "Try BabelEdit". It will try to activate over the internet and fail (because it's being redirected to your own machine now). | |
Two boxes will appear. On the second one, paste following: | |
PHBsaXN0PjxkaWN0PjxrZXk+cHJvZHVjdDwva2V5PjxzdHJpbmc+QmFiZWxFZGl0PC9zdHJpbmc+PGtleT5saWNlbnNlVHlwZTwva2V5PjxzdHJpbmc+PC9zdHJpbmc+PC9kaWN0PjwvcGxpc3Q+ | |
And press "Activate". BabelEdit will open. | |
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It's a annoying workaround because to use BabelEdit you'll need to enter this key above *every time*. But if you don't have money, the trouble's worth it. |
And what about simply buying a license? After all it's a perpetual license - no subscription.
We are 2 developers and for us it's a struggle to make a living from our software.
If you really can't afford BabelEdit, contact me (support at codeandweb.com) we can surely find a better than just stealing the software from us.
@CodeAndWeb Thanks for chiming in! Hopefully more people see your comment.
Also, if you want me to take this gist down, just say so! (It doesn't work anymore, but that shouldn't really matter)
For others, as I said in the original post: If you like the software, buy it, the devs deserve it.
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For me, these values are all encoded, like
licensing.data.rawdata^recentFileList_^P^_licensing.data.freeUpdatesUntil_^P^_NSMenuShouldUpdateSettingsTitle_^P^OignoredWarnings^showInfoOnSave_^P^Wlicensing.data.licenseeZfirstStart_^P"sourceCodeReferencesVisibleVisible_^P^UsimilarPhrasesVisible_^P^Vlicensing.data.product