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Yet another ST4 license question

#1

This seems to be the opposite of the existing ST4 licensing questions, because things are perhaps working too well: I last upgraded in 2017 (so, >3 years) but my license seems to still work just fine for ST4 on starting it up for the first time, and the “about” menu shows that the app is registered. My understanding was that I should need to purchase an upgrade given when I last upgraded – is this a bug / am I misunderstanding something? (Definitely not complaining if I don’t need to upgrade!)

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#2

If you have a ST3 license outside of the 3 year range, it should continue to work but the title bar will say License Upgrade Required to let you know. Do you see that?

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#3

I don’t seem to be seeing that; the window title bar just shows the filename or “untitled” for a new window.

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#4

Are you running one of the recent dev builds or the stable release version?

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#5

This is the release version, haven’t tried ST4 before this release.

Something else that may matter, not sure: when installing it I followed (what I took to be[1]) the side-by-side instructions, because I wasn’t sure if I was ready to fully switch over, and copied ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3 into ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text.

[1] Edit: just to clarify this, I found those instructions slightly cryptic in that they explained more about how things worked, rather than what I should do, so I don’t know that they literally said to do what I did; it just seemed like the best way to go so that I got both my current state imported and didn’t let ST4 overwrite stuff in the ST3 directory.

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#6

I’m not sure if anyone cares, but on a recent upgrade my ST4 install now finally shows “LICENSE UPGRADE REQUIRED”, a little over 4 years since I last purchased a license. (Edit: well, now I did just buy a new one. To clarify, I have actually still been using ST3 as my main editor in the intervening time.)

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#7

For reference: due to the warranted backlash from the ST3→ST4 transition we delayed the license expiry until the new update dialog was completed.

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