onOne Genuine Fractals Print Pro

[pteeter]

Has anyone successfully re-packaged this Photoshop plug-in *with* the serial number intact?

I’m trying to get onOne to reveal how they serialize, it appears to be per user.

I need to investigate but figured I’d put it to the forum too.

Let me know.

[Patrick Fergus]

fseventer would help here. Also, some plugins are notorious for serializing themselves (or keeping settings) inside the Creative Suite preferences rather than a sane plist. When I hit these scenarios I serialize the product and then start yanking preference files one by one until the plugin becomes unserialized.

If you do end up doing a hand serialization, embedding a text file with the serial in a non-obvious place (inside the plugin’s package (as in “Show Package Contents” in the Finder), for example) can at least save you the headache of typing it in and having to go find it every time you need to serialize it.

– Patrick

[pteeter]

Thanks for fseventer tip. Great tool.

So it appears onOne stores serialization info for Genuine Fractals Print Pro in /Users/Shared/.PPXE

The odd part is that the file is 0 size and appears to be empty with more, vi, and strings.

Now, the file name is part of our s/n so…since I have no other s/n with which to test I cannot verify that another s/n might result in a file named something else.

This works for me though.

[Patrick Fergus]

Might the serial number be in a resource fork? Try:[code]ls -al /Users/Shared/.PPXE/rsrc[/code]- Patrick

[pteeter]

Yes…

strings /User/Shared/.PPXE/rsrc

Yields the un-hashed, un-encrypted serial number.

Way secure of onOne.

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