How to change SmartGit s licensing option after 30 days of commercial use on ubuntu

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while installing smartgit 3 0 4 I checked the commercial licensing option  because I was just clicking  next  button      30 day trial and then you have to buy it   Now today is my 31st day of using SG and I can t change my licensing options  reinstalling smartgit doesn t help  and I m not able to use SG anymore without paying  I m not using it for commercial purposes   Do you know how to fix it   I don t have these files on my ubuntu  http   www syntevo com smartgit documentation html page installation

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Here is a solutions for MAC PC   Open terminal and type following command to show hidden files   defaults write com apple finder AppleShowAllFiles YES   after that go to current user folder using finder  then you can see the Library folder in it which is hidden type  suppose in my case the username is  Delta  so the folder path is   OS X   Delta Library Preferences SmartGit  lt main-smartgit-version gt    Remove settings file and change option to Non Commercial

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For 19 1 above on Linux  Close the App or any window of Smartgit Go to    home  USERNAME   config smartgit  CURRENT OR LAST VERSION   open the file   preferences yml  Search for    quot listx    quot  in this file  You will find something like this   listx   ePP  1607503071922  eUT  -9223377036854775808  nRT  -9223377036854775808  eV   20 1   uid  emobf7q63s83   So now all you need is delete the string inside the    So it will be like this   listx      Now save the file and start Smartgit  You will have all repositories and other preferences and you will be asked for set the type of license

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I have been using windows for the last 13 years  I found this solution to be truly working for me  I recommend you to follow these steps    let s start by deleting this folder  C  Users Your-name AppData Roaming syntevo Completely uninstall smart git from the control panel  uninstall programs  Again re-install the smart git and change the default position of installing directory  While configuring smart git  make sure that the non-commercial option is selected that will help you to use the latest as well as a free version for lifetime

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For version 19 1 and above goto specified directory and delete these mentioned files    C  Users UserName AppData Roaming syntevo SmartGit 20 1 lt smart-git-version gt    preferences yml license file  C  Users UserName AppData Roaming syntevo SmartGit 20 1  backup   preferences yml    For the previous version goto specified directory and delete mentioned file    C  Users UserName AppData Roaming syntevo SmartGit 17 lt smart-git-version gt    setting xml

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I also raced through the first install on ubuntu and selected the default 30 day trial version instead of the non-commercial version   There is a blog on the syntevo site that addresses this issue   After unpacking the tar file I had a dir called smartgithg-4 0 3  I moved this folder to my home directory and renamed it smartgit  After running   bin smartgithg sh  another folder was created called  smartgit  note the   prefix    I simply deleted the  smartgit folder  the dir tree with all the  xml files  and ran the   bin smarthg sh script again  The whole install process is repeated  Select the non commercial option when it appears

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For mac users  in new version there is no setting xml  alternate way is to navigate to SmartGit preferences folder using terminal cd  Library Preferences SmartGit   use ls command to see list of folders    simply delete SmartGit version folder you find using command rm -r  lt main-smartgit-version gt  and reopen the SmartGit app

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just delete the settings xml and try againn to setup smartgitHg

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I deleted the entire Config folder but preserved the files repositories yml  repository-cache  repository-grouping yml  after running SmartGit  it created the config folder  i think it used the config from an older build  to save things like my git credentials    then i copied back my three files and i had all my repositories which is the most important info i needed

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Starting from version 19 1 they have renamed filenames     SmartGit grep -rl  listx    19 1   19 1 preferences yml   19 1  backup preferences yml   It is possible to delete them to reset the license setting

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I use linux and the answers did not help me  I had to erase the folder    config smartgit to make it work again  This is what the documentation is saying     Default Location of SmartGit s Settings DirectoryWindows    APPDATA  syntevo SmartGit    APPDATA  is the   path defined in the environment variable APPDATA  Mac OS     Library Preferences SmartGit   the Finder   might not show the   Libraries directory by default  but you can   invoke open   Library from a terminal  Linux Unix     XDG CONFIG HOME  smartgit   if the   environment variable XDG CONFIG HOME is not defined     config is used   instead

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I went on the internet and I found this  To alter the license  First  go to Windows   APPDATA  syntevo SmartGit amp lt main-smartgit-version gt  Windows portable  SmartGit  settings preferences yml OS X    Library Preferences SmartGit  lt main-smartgit-version gt  Unix Linux     smartgit  lt main-smartgit-version gt  and remove the file settings xml  If you have updated many times  you may need to remove the updates folder as well  It helped me on Windows  hope it helps you on other systems as well

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new 2021 hack for Mac   First goto   Library Preferences SmartGit Second delete whatever version do you have i have deleted the whole 20 1 version folder Third open smart git

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Newest versions of SmartGit contain settings under installation folder  So to reset trial go to the install folder  ex   C  Program Files SmartGit   and remove rename  the  settings directory

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My own solution on Linux  under    config smartgit 19 1  is to comment or remove line listx from preferences yml file and reopen program   Deleting the all folders will make you reconfigure everything  useless

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it would be helpful to know if you use linux or windows  in linux the settings are located in    smartgit 3  You could try to remove this folder  Imho this is also worth a try in Windows

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Working fine for windows by navigating to  APPDATA  syntevo SmartGit  and delete all settings xml  then open the installed software

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on Mac    First goto   Library Preferences SmartGit 19 1 Second goto preferences yml file and just comment listx line  Third open smart git

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OSX cd   Library Preferences SmartGit  sed -i      listx d      preferences yml rm   license  Windows portable path to preferences yml  SmartGit  settings preferences yml

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