RealBASIC crashed and won't return!

[dricci]

I was running RealBASIC 3.2.1 (which is a carbon app) and it crashed. When I try to re-start it now it tells me that there's a copy of realbasic running on the network with the same licence. So I figured that the old real basic just got to be a stuck process or something. I did a ls -x and noticed nothing there. Hmm.. I sudo'ed to root and did the big process list, same results: no RealBASIC processes. Ok, So I logged out and back in. Same problem. I logged out and back in as root, started it up, and told me I had to register.. Hmm.. so it's user specific registrations. That doesn't help me. Logged out and back in as my normal user, and same problem still. Any ideas? There are NO stuck real basic processes, and everything is running smooth now. I need to start RealBASIC and I don't want to have to restart and loose my uptime I hate anti piracy features!

 

[Dradts]

You can continue using RealBasic without restarting ur mac by doing the following:

Open up "~/library/preferences/" (where ~ is ur private home directory)

1) Delete the file called "icon " (gotta type it with the 2 spaces at the end and with the quotes!!)
2) Delete the file called "RealBasic 3 Preferences"
3) Delete the file called "RealBasic 3.2 carbon.plist"

After that, startup RealBasic again. It should work, but unfortunately u will have to enter ur registration key again

I wrote myself a script which deletes all the necessary files and copies the registration key into the clipboard, so i just have to enter my name again after realbasic crashed.

Here is how i've done it:

cd /
cd users
cd [urshortusername]
cd library
cd preferences
rm "icon "
rm "realbasic 3 preferences"
rm "realbasic 3.2 carbon.plist"
echo -n "[ur registration key]" | pbcopy

save the whole thang as a pure textdocument and name it "DeleteRBPrefs.command" or something like that. When u add the ".command" at the end of the filename, u can launch the script simply by doubleclicking on it