garpu
March 24, 2021, 4:38pm
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spacechampion:
ooooooohhhhh I figured it out.
If anyone has this happen to them after they get the coupon code but it won’t proceed after you press the “Buy” button, just copy the coupon code and go to the purchase page as if you were going to buy a new copy of Scrivener 3 for Windows. Enter the code there and it will email you the new license code. The coupon code is NOT the license code!
Perhaps my Wine doesn’t have Internet Explorer installed, so couldn’t bring up the purchase page from the Scrivener registration window.
Seemed to take a while for the server to be updated with the new code, so activation failed when I tried it immediately but succeeded when I tried it about 15 minutes later.
This worked for me, too. Dotnet 4.5 is broken in WINE, but if you’re using winetricks, it should install 4.62 and above just fine, but fail installing the rest of them. It’s OK. You don’t need dotnet 4.5.
Also, in WINE 6.3 through 5.20ish, accessing the internet is hosed (see here: Scrivener 3.0, wine > 5.22, the internet, and you ) This could be making the paddle license server fail.
The dialogue that popped up telling me to deactivate made me think it was another error.
