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Here's the reply from VMWare support:

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"If you attempted to install the key in Fusion after the installation completed, but before you rebooted the Mac, you will get this error message.

"If you rebooted and still got the invalid message from Fusion you will have to uninstall and then reinstall making sure to reboot before entering the license key. The enclosed PDF have a list of files and directories you have to make sure are deleted in the uninstallation."
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The contents of the PDF:

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Customer Getting Invalid or Expired License Key for Valid Serial Number

First attempt to reboot the Host. There needs to be a kernel extension loaded in order for the licensing of the product to work.

If it still refuses the valid license key do the following.

1) Uninstall VMware Fusion by using the “Uninstall Vmware Fusion” located at
/Hard Drive/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/

2) Delete the following folder: Hard Drive /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion
3) Delete following file if it exists: ~/Library/Preferences/com.vmware.fusion.plist
4) Delete following file if it exists: /Hard Drive/Library/Receipts/VMware Fusion.pkg
5) Delete the following folder if it exists: ~/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion

6) Delete these files if they exist-
/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/license.fusion.site.XXXXXXXXX
/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/licenses/license.fusion.site.XXXXXX

7) Reboot Mac
8) Re-Install VMware

9) Enter the ordered serial number
10) Install the latest version of VMware Tools in your Virtual Machines after installing Vmware Fusion
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Disclaimer: I did not try this, because I was able to get my serial to work by manually editing the license file (as in my original post). Note, however, that it doesn't say to reboot your Mac after step 8... maybe you should, just to be safe.

Rick and Will responded to my problem on the forum. The post was deleted accidentally. Also, they provided the following code to fix the problem:

app/models/node.rb


def unified_diff_for(old_rev, new_rev, diff_path)
old_path = old_rev.node_created_path(diff_path).sub(/^\//, '')
old_rev = find_revision old_rev, diff_path
new_rev = find_revision new_rev, diff_path
sorted = check_revisions(old_rev, new_rev)
old_root = find_root_for_revision(sorted[0], diff_path)
new_root = find_root_for_revision(sorted[1], diff_path)
differ = Svn::Fs::FileDiff.new(old_root, old_path, new_root, diff_path)
if differ.binary?
''
else
old = "#{old_path} (revision #{old_root.node_created_rev(old_path)})"
cur = "#{diff_path} (revision #{new_root.node_created_rev(diff_path)})"
differ.unified(old, cur)
end
end


No, no persecution, just got caught when they tried to remove spam. Also, they've merge with Entp, so this might not be the right company/product to ask for support for.

Anyway, here's my post re-posted:

http://forum.activereload.net/forums/...

Strange, my ActiveReload forum post about this was deleted. Persecution?

Here too