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Julia Kozub

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:04:55 PM8/3/24

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I'm trying to push a Chemdraw 18 Professional Activation out, however I can't manage to get it Licensed. It looks as though the activation host is linked to the computer's serial number. Any thoughts?

and "replacing" it with an AppleScript application, named "ChemDraw Prime 18". The only thing this does is "hold down" the Option key while launching the real ChewDraw app, which instructs ChemDraw to use the older style of activation used prior to v16, where an license code was stored in /Library/Preferences/com.cambridgesoft.plist. You would need to contact your account manager to obtain the license keys to make this work, and distribute the plist to your clients.

This definitely has its flaws, especially when running under Mojave - macOS will prompt the user if "ChemDraw Prime 18" should be allowed to control "ChemDraw 18", which will probably thoroughly confuse the user - but it's the best that I could come up with at the time.

@deej @jaugust @jgrant Can you tell me where the Activate.ini file should go? On a Windows computer I have to put it in C:\ProgramData\PerkinElmerInformatics\FNE\21.0\. Does it go in a similar place on a Mac? It seems like the similar location on a mac would be Users/Shared/com.perkinelmer.chemdraw.21/FNE. Thanks!

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I must admit that ChemDraw has improved significantly over the years for drawing inorganic and organometallic structures, but there are still issues. ChemDraw has an option "clean up structure" which works well for "fine tuning" organic molecules, but it doesn't work well for inorganic molecules. Perhaps the issue is program treats the metal ions as if they are "carbon". I am not sure. Has anyone else noticed this?

Maybe I need to create my own standard chemdraw template as well. That is not good that the ACS template works well for organics but not inorganic molecules. Maybe I will send a note to chemdraw? (smile)