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<blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 469238" data-attributes="member: 649">I'm not certain if I should bring this up, but since it seems to be such an issue:The version that checks for the CD simply looks for any CD in your drive named &quot;ETOOLS&quot;. The problem is that people (like me) who purchased the early version got a CD with no volume label at all. If the patch works the way the eTools Trinket beta patch did (which is likely, since it was from Fluid, too), it will modify your no-CD-required copy of eTools into a look-for-a-CD copy of eTools. If you're like me with the early version, you don't have such a CD.The temporary workaround while I was beta testing Trinket (the PocketPC eTools viewer application) was to simply burn a CD and give it a volume label of &quot;ETOOLS&quot;. It was a totally blank CD, but it did the trick and my now-CD-requiring copy of eTools ran just fun as long as that CD was in the drive during startup.I know this wouldn't work for all users since they won't all have access to CD burners (or friends with CD burners), but it certainly does the trick for some.I hesitated to post this because it could be considered a form of a hack, one that might allow people with pirated copies to run the app, so if Anthony or a board mod or what have you thinks I should delete the message, I'd be happy to. It's just that it's a simple workaround for many potential patch-problem users that I didn't want to keep it to myself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fast Learner, post: 469238, member: 649"] I'm not certain if I should bring this up, but since it seems to be such an issue: The version that checks for the CD simply looks for [i]any[/i] CD in your drive named "ETOOLS". The problem is that people (like me) who purchased the early version got a CD with no volume label at all. If the patch works the way the eTools Trinket beta patch did (which is likely, since it was from Fluid, too), it will modify your no-CD-required copy of eTools into a look-for-a-CD copy of eTools. If you're like me with the early version, you don't have such a CD. The temporary workaround while I was beta testing Trinket (the PocketPC eTools viewer application) was to simply burn a CD and give it a volume label of "ETOOLS". It was a totally blank CD, but it did the trick and my now-CD-requiring copy of eTools ran just fun as long as that CD was in the drive during startup. I know this wouldn't work for all users since they won't all have access to CD burners (or friends with CD burners), but it certainly does the trick for some. I hesitated to post this because it could be considered a form of a hack, one that might allow people with pirated copies to run the app, so if Anthony or a board mod or what have you thinks I should delete the message, I'd be happy to. It's just that it's a simple workaround for many potential patch-problem users that I didn't want to keep it to myself. [/QUOTE]

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