Maplesoft products use FLEXlm for licensing, and a license file (e.g. License.dat for Maple) is tied to a computer, particularly the Host ID/MAC Address, or Disk Serial Number (for Windows). If you need to know this information (for an, for instance), you can follow the appropriate procedure below. Windows The Disk Serial Number can be found by first opening a Command Prompt from the Start Menu, and then executing vol at the prompt. It should return something of the form 'Volume Serial Number is ABCD-1234', in which case your Disk Serial Number is ABCD1234 (no dash). To obtain the Host ID associated with your Ethernet adapter, instead execute the following at a prompt: ipconfig /all The Host ID/MAC Address will be listed as the 'Physical Address' for the first Ethernet adapter. It should be of the form 'AB-12-CD-34-EF-56', in which case your Host ID will be AB12CD34EF56 (no dashes).
Macintosh To determine your Host ID, first open a Terminal, and then execute the following: ifconfig -a Likely, you want the adapter 'en0', and the 12-character code for 'ether'. It should be of the form 'ab:12:cd:34:ef:56', in which case your Host ID will be ab12cd34ef56 (no colons). Linux To determine your Host ID, first open a Terminal, and then execute the following: ifconfig -a Likely, you want the adapter 'HWaddr', and the 12-character code for 'ether'. It should be of the form 'ab:12:cd:34:ef:56', in which case your Host ID will be ab12cd34ef56 (no colons).
Note: If you need to recover files from the system disk of your operational Mac computer, read our article: Even a Mac user sometimes can find that his or her computer doesn't start anymore. Its hardware seems to be functioning, but the computer isn't operable anymore.
Quite often that may happen after an unsuccessful system update or system crash. The Mac system provides a system recovery option, but such operation may permanently destroy user's files, such as family photos, music collections, important documents, as so on. So, it's a quite reasonable step to recover such files before recovering the system.
Such procedure is called an 'emergency recovery' and can be performed using special recovery tools like R-Studio Emergency. This article will give you step-by-step instructions on how to perform such emergency recovery and save your endangered files. In addition, you may use if you need some more information. Also you don't have to buy R-Studio immediately to start recovering files. You may do most actions in its Demo mode except saving recovered files. When you have enough reasons to believe that you will be able to recover files successfully, you my buy R-Studio and register it without interrupting the file recovery process. Preliminary Steps Before we begin we need to do some preliminary steps: First, we need to find place to store recovered files.
You may use the following devices:. External devices such as USB sticks, memory cards, and other similar FAT/exFAT-formatted devices. Such devices are inexpensive and easily available, they can be read by all operating systems, but keep in mind: FAT-formatted devices cannot store files larger that 2GB.
Disk Utility is a Mac OS X Snow Leopard feature that helps you perform maintenance chores on your Mac. You can use Disk Utility to see what data resides on the volumes or partitions you have on your computer. To find Disk Utility, open the Utilities folder within your Applications folder. Aug 15, 2018 - After following this guide, you'll be able to dual-boot your Mac into Windows. To see available hard drive space, click on the Apple menu in the. The latest software update and that you backup your important files. To the right of the ISO Image box to locate your Windows ISO file. IDG Network Sites.
So, if you plan to recover large video files, format them as exFAT devices. External hard drives formatted by Mac computers (with the HFS/HFS+ file system).
R-Studio Emergency can write files to such disks, although some files and folders on those disks may have access problems on Mac computers. Finder shows such inaccessible folders and files in the following way: Inaccessible Folders in Finder Click image to enlarge To get access to such data, do the following: 1. Under an administrator account, control-click the folder and select Get Info on the contextual menu. Info of an inaccessible folder Click image to enlarge Click the Lock icon in the Sharing & Permissions section to unlock the folder properties. The system will ask you for the account password. Click the Privilege column and select Read & Write on the contextual menu.
Setting the access rights for the folder Click image to enlarge 3. If this is a folder with other folders and files, click the Properties icon and select Apply to enclosed items.
Setting access rights for enclosed items in the folder Click image to enlarge Then click the Lock icon to lock the properties back. Windows computers cannot read such disks without some third-party software installed. Linux computers are able to access files on such disks, but some access right problems may appear.
External hard drives formatted by Windows computers (with the NTFS file system). Mac computers can only read such disks without any third-party software, and Linux computers have full access to such disks. Network disks. Such disks may be on other network computers or NAS devices. Below we'll explain how to connect such disks to R-Studio Emergency. Then we need to create an R-Studio Emergency startup disk. Using a Mac Computer Download the, unzip it, and write files to a FAT32-formatted USB device.
Please note that you cannot use this disk to start non-EFI computers (old Macs, for example), nor can you just copy those files to a CD/DVD disc to create an R-Studio Emergency startup disc. If you need a CD disk, burn it using the.
Using a Windows Computer You may create a USB startup disk for R-Studio Emergency using a Windows Computer. See R-Studio on-line Help: for details. That disk can be used to start any computer. Now we can start the file recovery procedure: Starting a Mac computer with R-Studio Emergency 1. Connect a USB disk. Switch the Mac on 3.
While loading, keep the Option key on the Mac keyboard pressed (the Alt key if you use a non-Apple keyboard). The Options key Click image to enlarge 4. Select the EFI boot disk and press Enter. The R-Studio Emergency startup disk Click image to enlarge R-Studio Emergency will start loading. Select R-Studio Emergency GUI (Graphic Mode) The Startup Options screen Click image to enlarge Wait until the R-Studio Emergency Demo Activation dialog box appears. Activation screen Click image to enlarge You don't have to enter the activation code immediately; you may click the Cancel button and work with R-Studio Emergency in its Demo mode. In this mode, you may perform all file recovery actions except saving recovered files.
The Main panel of R-Studio will appear. R-Studio's Main panel Click image to enlarge File Recovery If R-Studio has recognized a file system on the partition, just double-click it to enumerate the files. When the file/folder structure appears, navigate to the Users folder, and mark folders and files for recovery. Files marked for recovery Click image to enlarge Searching for and marking files for recovery You may do that in several ways:. Sorting files by their types (extensions): Click the Extensions tab on the Sorted by: bar.
Files sorted by their types (extensions) Click image to enlarge. Sorting files by their times (Creation/Modification/Access): Click the necessary tab on the Sorted by: bar. Files sorted by their creation time Click image to enlarge You may see paths to the individual files on the Contents pane if you select Path on the View - Contents - View Columns menu. Finding specific files Also, you can find and mark specific files to recover by using the Find/Mark dialog box.
Click the Find/Mark button and specify the file(s), their options, and what to do with them Find dialog box Click image to enlarge See the R-Studio on-line Help: for more information on Find/Mark options. You may estimate the chances of recovering files by using the built-in graphic previewer. Just double-click a selected file, be it a deleted or existing one. The previewer supports most graphic formats. File previewer Click image to enlarge If you've found all the files that you want and are satisfied with their preview results, you may activate your R-Studio Emergency if it's running in the Demo mode. That will not affect any obtained information; you may continue file recovery right after entering the Activation Code.
You need to activate your copy of R-Studio Emergency to save recovered files. Without activation (if you click the Cancel button on the Activation dialog box), R-Studio Emergency will work in its Demo mode.
In this mode it can perform any data recovery operation, except working on network and saving recovered files. But you may preview files to estimate the chances of recovering them.
To activate your copy of R-Studio Emergency, write down the computer's hardware code. Please note that this hardware code is unique for each computer. If you start R-Studio Emergency on another one, the hardware code will be different. Click image to enlarge You must fill in at least three fields to enter the Registered User's Console. Then click the R-Studio Emergency Activation Code button. Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Please note that the R-Studio is licensed per machine, not per user, and you may generate a computer's Activation Code for licensed computers only.
An R-Studio license cannot be transferred to another computer after the software has been installed or run and registered. So you should enter the Hardware Code of the computer to be licensed only.
Click image to enlarge Write down the Activation Code, and store it in a safe place. Every time you start R-Studio Emergency, you'll need to enter it during activation. You may enter the Activation Code on the R-Studio Emergency Demo Activation dialog box during startup or, while working, by selecting Activate on the Help menu. Click image to enlarge R-Studio Emergency will show that the registration is successful: Click image to enlarge Now you may save recovered files. You may use both DHCP and manual configuration to obtain an IP address for the computer running R-Studio Emergency. To start network configuration, select Network configuration on the Tools menu.
The Network configuration dialog box will appear and R-Studio will automatically start acquiring a network address using DHCP. Network Configuration dialog box Click image to enlarge You may cancel this process by selecting Configure manually. Then you need to enter the address manually. If your computer has several network interfaces, you may select which interface is to be used. Then you need to specify a network share to which the data will be saved.
Select Map network drive on the Tools menu. The Map network drive dialog box will appear. Map network drive dialog boxb Click image to enlarge For example, if the network drive's path is //SERVER/NetDrive, then Server IP address is the IP address of the SERVER computer (192.168.1.20), and Server share name is NetDrive. Once you've selected all files to recover, click the Recover Marked button.
The Recover dialog box will appear: Recovery dialog box Click image to enlarge See the R-Studio on-line Help: for more details. Specify the recovery options and output folder to store recovered files.
Output folder for recovered files Click image to enlarge When all file recovery settings are specified, click the OK button. R-Studio will start file recovery showing its progress. File Recovery Progress Click image to enlarge The Log panel will show results of file recovery.
File recovery results Click image to enlarge Scanning the disk If R-Studio cannot find the partition with the files you want to recover, you need to scan the disk. Disk scan is also required to recover deleted files because when macOS deletes files it deletes all information about it. When the scan is finished, R-Studio will show you one or several recognized partitions so you can choose the right one and recover files from it as it's been described in the File recovery from an existing partition section. To scan the partition, right-click the partition to be scanned and specify the required scan parameters on the Scan dialog box. Scan dialog box Click image to enlarge See the R-Studio on-line Help: for more details. Scanning for Known File Types This is a very useful feature for file recovery from deleted or reformatted partitions.
While scanning, R-Studio can recognize to which particular file type the data belong. Using that information, R-Studio can find more files to recover. Those found files appear in the Extra Found Files folder in the scan result.
Known File Types dialog box Click image to enlarge By default, R-Studio tries to recognize the default list of supported file types, increasing time required for the scan. You may reduce it by selecting only those file types that you need. Click the Known File Types. Button and select the required file types on the File Types dialog box. These selections will be applied to that scan session only.
You may create your own known file types if necessary. Read the for more details. When you're ready with the scan parameters, click the Scan button.
R-Studio will start scanning. When it finishes the scan, it will show the recognized partitions it's found on the disk. Scan results Click image to enlarge R-Studio shows them in different colors depending on which elements of the partition have been found. This represents an existing logical disk or partition. Both boot records and file entries are found for this partition. Only file entries are found for this partition.
Only boot records are found for this partition. This represents the empty space on the object.
To successfully recover files from a recognized partition, it is necessary to find one that corresponds correctly to the real logical disk on which the files resided. No strict rules can be applied to that, but the following tips should be taken into account:. If you are going to recover files from a disk with a damaged file system, most likely the right recognized partition will be one coded in green. If you are going to recover files from a previously deleted or formatted partition, most likely the right recognized partition will be one coded in yellow. Also, always check the recognized partition's file system, start point, and size. These characteristics should be the same for both the recognized partition and real logical disk/partition. When in doubt, try to preview a couple of files from the recognized partition.
If the files are seen correctly, this is the right partition. In our example, we have only one Recognized0, so the choice is easy. Just double-click the partition and recover the files as we did that for the existing partition. Computer Shutdown When you finish file recovery, remove the USB disk, and turn your computer off manually.