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Re: installing Player Pro killed using Mathematica itself: BEWARE!

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg88044] Re: installing Player Pro killed using Mathematica itself: BEWARE!
• From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
• Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:05:47 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <fukenj$s2a$1@smc.vnet.net>

Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> With an existing installation of Mathematica 6.0.2 under Windows, I just 
> installed Player Pro.  The result: if I start Mathematica itself and 
> open a new notebook there, I am prohibited from typing any and all input.
> 
> This sort of thing is intolerable!  An utterly time-frittering aggravation.
> 
> I suspect that the scenario involved here was not tested by WRI:  My 
> mathpass for Mathematica itself is in the Licensing subdirectory of my 
> USERBASE directory, which is the same as my BASE directory (both set by 
> Windows environment variables MATHEMATICA_BASE and MATHEMATICA_USERBASE).
> 
> This is hardly the first time I have run into trouble with multiple 
> passwords from multiple Wolfram Research products.  It is something they 
> have just not yet gotten right.  Beware!
> 
> What I did as a temporary fix was to use my Windows backup program to 
> restore my pre-existing mathpass file.  Now regular Mathematica works. 
> But of course Player Pro does not.
> 
Murray,

Maybe you could use both products on the same machine by changing the 
MATHEMATICA_BASE/MATHEMATICA_USERBASE environment variable when you 
switch from one to the other (and on initial installation).

I do agree about your complaint though, mathpass files are obviously 
encrypted, but it would be nice if in all other ways their behaviour was 
transparent.

David