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M-C_Hammer
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October 12, 2009
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RoboHelp X5 activation (yet again)

Hello everyone

It has been ages since I posted here and I haven't used RoboHelp X5 in ages (We have migrated our project to MadCap Flare) so please bear with me.

I need to open an historical project with RH X5 to have a look at some CSH stuff.

To my surprise, I am asked to activate my copy of RH X5 and have discovered on the Internet that this was a known issue.

I read snippet 100 of Peter Grainge's website and tried to follow the steps described there and in

http://www.adobe.com/support/robohelp/downloads.html

However, or I need new glasses, or I am very tired, but I cannot find the mentioned X5.0.1 and X5.0.2 patches (looks like their hyperlinks have been removed from the document), nor the links that are apparently provided for cases where the auto-update feature is not accessible (which is my case, I cannot get in).

Can someone help?

Thanks in advance!

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    RoboColum_n_
    RoboColum_n_Correct answer
    Legend
    October 12, 2009

    See this link to enable you to run RHX5 without activation.

    Read the RoboColum(n) for a tips,  tricks and musings on the Technical Communication Suite products.

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    bishopelf
    Participant
    November 20, 2009

    Scratch that.

    I did manage to get the X5.02 patch to run - apparently I didn't curse enough the first 10 times.

    Now I am at the same VB .dll error that has been previously mentioned.

    Not successful, but a little further....

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    RoboColum_n_
    RoboColum_n_Correct answer
    Legend
    October 12, 2009

    See this link to enable you to run RHX5 without activation.

    Read the RoboColum(n) for a tips,  tricks and musings on the Technical Communication Suite products.

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    M-C_HammerAuthor
    Known Participant
    October 12, 2009

    Hmm, I think I am being thick today. Finally found the links to the patches, which to be honest, are not easily identifiable...

    It is nice to hear from a "familiar face". Thanks Colum.

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    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 12, 2009

    See instead Snippets on my site. The second patch is badly labelled and I cover what you need to click.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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