MadBrowser (and anyone else in the same predicament):
If you have upgraded to Panther from a previous version of Mac OS X (such as 10.2 Jaguar) or re-installed Jaguar or Panther over your previous install, you may have lost the installed license files for your copies of OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle.
If you chose to perform an 'Archive and Install' along with 'Preserve Users and Network settings' your licenses should remain intact.
If instead you chose to do an Archive and Install WITHOUT preserving User and Network settings, your previous system files have all been backed up into a folder at the root (top) level of your hard disk. This folder is called 'Previous Systems'. Inside that folder, there will be one or more folders numbered like "Previous System 1, Previous System 2", etc. These folders contain your older system and user files. You may be able to recover your license files simply by looking inside the proper folder of the archived system. The license files, if there are any will be in the following folder:
<Previous Systems/Previous System 1/Library/Application Support/Omni Group/Software Licenses/>
If course, you might have more than 1 previous system folder so be sure to check them all. If you do find license files, run the application you wish to license. If the application does not prompt you immediately for a license, open the licenses panel by choosing 'Licenses...' from under the application menu (the one that reads 'OmniWeb', 'OmniOutliner', or 'OmniGraffle'). With the license panel in view you can then drag the license files from your previous system on to the Licenses window in order to re-install the license.
You will probably want to install the license as a 'Computer' license so all users on your system have access to it, but this will require that you are using an administrator account to install the license. Otherwise, you will only be able to install it as a personal license (which goes into your Home folder and it not available to other users on your machine.)
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If you have erased your original factory system altogether, you can get at the OmniOutliner or OmniGraffle disk image files from the Software Restore CD by performing the following actions:
1. Log into your computer using an account with administrator privileges.
2. Place the software restore CD (disc 1) or DVD into your disc drive.
3. Once the disc mounts in Finder, open a new Finder window or use an existing one and put it into column view by choosing from the 'View' menu 'As Columns'.
4. Now navigate to 'Computer' by using the 'Go' menu in Finder and choosing 'Computer'. Select the Software Restore CD or DVD from the list of mounted disks in the Finder window by clicking once on its icon. Do not select any of the items inside the disk, however.
5. Choose 'Go to Folder...' from the 'Go' menu in Finder
6. Type '.images' (without the quotes) and then click the 'Go' button.
7. Finder should then display for you the contents of an invisible folder on the disc called '.images' and inside this folder you should find a disk image (.dmg) file called 'OmniOutliner.dmg' and another called 'OmniGraffle.dmg'.
8. Mount one or both disk images by double-clicking the icon(s)
9. Once the disk images have mounted, you should see corresponding disk(s) in Finder under 'Computer' with the application(s) inside
10. Run the application on the disk image you just mounted by double-clicking the icon. As long as you are running as an administrator, this will cause the application to re-install it's license file in </Library/Application Support/Omni Group/Software Licenses/>. Perform this step for each application you would like the license restored for.
11. Once you have run the application you can quit it and eject the mounted volume it came on. Once all mounted volumes from the software restore CD or DVD have been ejected, you can safely eject the software restore disc as well.
Now, when you run a more current copy of the application it will recognize the installed license file.
Hope that helps.
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