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Hello, I spoke to Invitrogen (France) today and they said that, if asked, they would provide a 2 month free license so that people could do exactly this and recover their files. The also said they would send me details on a simple procedure to extract the data from a locked version which I will post on the bb. They told me they have 100,000 users - so hardly a minor specialist application! At €650-€4000 per license, that looks quite fruitful for them. An earlier poster made the point that it is a good thing to pay for good software. I agree and don't want to seem like a moaner, but I object to the strategy employed here on this occasion. Hence my original post to find out what the alternatives are. Darren 2009/1/30 Jeffrey Wilson <[log in to unmask]> > On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:47 AM, Darren Hart wrote: > >> >> ps anyone using VNTI might consider a backup of their work by exporting >> files to .gb format. I don't know if a locked up (expired) version permits >> this and you will have no notice that it is about to expire. >> > > My license recently expired. I had been running VectorNTI on my Mac > through a Windows virtual machine. When the license ran out, I was unable > to export any of the sequences that I had created. Now, if there was only a > way to turn back time so that my computer thought it was still 2008 ... ehm > ... ;) > > Jeff > -- ********************************************************************** Dr. Darren Hart, Team Leader High Throughput Protein Lab Grenoble Outstation European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) ********************************************************************** EMBL webpages: http://tinyurl.com/6xdltl http://tinyurl.com/667jrp Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: +33 4 76 20 77 68 Fax: +33 4 76 20 71 99 Skype: hartdarren Postal address: EMBL, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, BP181, 38042 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France **********************************************************************