iMatch5 Lockout 2014

[jazbo]

Hi Mario

Got home this morning after celebrating New Year.  We are now in 2014.  (New Zealand first country in the world)   What no iMatch5 !!!  Tried again / Try again / reboot /reboot / reinstall / nothing.   Not a flicker.  Installed on another computer - the same - not a flicker.   What has happened ?  Ah - we have rolled into 2014.  Changed computer date back to 2013 and all OK. 

So I guess as the world turns iMatch users will be locked out. 

Have converted 170K files and all looks good.

Regards John

[hro]

Yes, I can confirm the same here. IM5 won't start for us unlucky NZ'ers being the first in 2014. 

[ianrr]

Same here in Australia  ... will not start  ....

[Ranger1700]

Same for me in UK. Version 128

Tom

[ovrevid]

No luck in Norway, either. I'm guessing (hoping) that it's just some code for a trial version of Imatch that have reached it's "magic moment". If so, it should be a quick fix for Mario.

Or maybe a REALLY late Y2K bug 

Regards
Vidar

[Menace]

Maybe this is the end of the beta-phase?    Same here in Germany. ^^

[Sorted]

Can confirm that bug has spread to the vast reaches of Western Australia. Task Manager reports nowt. Perhaps its a case of the morning after the night before.

[dcb]

I've reported this here including my steps to resolve. Can confirm fails on a second computer. Currently restoring windows to an earlier version which will confirm if a recent update has caused the problem. If date based, fix may be out of Mario's control.

[DavidOfMA]

Is this an intentional beta expiration? Or just a glitch? In either case, too bad, as I had set aside some time to get into Imatch 5 on New Years Day, since I have the time off. Hopefully an update is coming soon?

[dcb]

Unlikely to be a beta-expiry with a new version released a day ago. Most likely a component Mario has used is dying somewhere. I'm confident it will be a priority for him to address. Hopefully not too far out of his control.

[Lincoln]

If you reset your system clock to 2013 still works fine.

[J.D. McDowell]

Ha! Well at least it's not just my machine. Happy New Year from Canada!

I can confirm that rolling back the clock to last year fixes it.

[WebEngel]

I don't see a problem here.  Everything seems fine.

[herman]

The same here.

I guess it is one or the prerogatives of being a beta tester.
Imagine this happening on a production database.... 

Happy new year to all!

[clpratt]

I've noticed if I right click on IMatch5 shortcut there is a reduced list of commands compared to right clicking on the shortcuts of other Applications.
In particular the "Run as administrator" is missing. This might be a clue for Mario.

[Ranger1700]

I've noticed if I right click on IMatch5 shortcut there is a reduced list of commands compared to right clicking on the shortcuts of other Applications.
In particular the "Run as administrator" is missing. This might be a clue for Mario.

In my case right click shows "Run as administrator" but still selecting this still does not open IM5.

I would have thought a "kill date" would be a reasonable thing for Mario to put in a beta program, to prevent it being used after going live. Perhaps extending it  has just been overlooked.

Tom
   

[Darius1968]

Well, at least now I know it's not a case of Windows 7 being glitchy like Vista was! 

[Aubrey]

Now Mario knows who is really making an effort to test the beta version 

Happy New Year all.
Aubrey.

[Ferdinand]

Testing on New Year's Day too!!!  We just need Mario to recover from last night.   

[ubacher]

Have the same problem. IM5 will not start. Converter starts OK.

[DaweP]

I can report the same problem... :-(

[jch2103]

I thought I was spared as I was able to use IM5 on 1/1 while visiting in Australia. Turns out I had only postponed the inevitable, as my laptop was still set for Mountain time (UTC -7)...

ps - I looked for a log file but there wasn't one for 1/1.

[Winfried]

same here...
Maybe I should drive to Marios place and wake him up.
It just about 30 kilometes

Winfried

[cytochrome]

Let poor Mario sleep, I reckon he needs it deeply after all the testing and final (??) sprint to get conversion working.

Bonne année to all from my sunny corner of the Alps

Francis

[kiwilink]

Oh no!  Same here in Illinois!  I changed my clock date back to yesterday and it opened but then IMATCH started going crazy with a message at the bottom that said "Loading Z unknown dates with 219 files" .  I shut it down as fast as I could.  Hope I didn't hurt anything.

[joel23]

Happy New Year.
Same here.
Until it will be fixed you can start IM with the date set back and right switching clock back to actual date/time when it is running.

[JohnZeman]

Add my name to the victim's list too..

Sigh..  Looks like I need to work in <sobs> Lightroom today for awhile then.

[Mario]

That's an incidental expiration of the Beta version. It just stops in 2014. A left-over from the Alpha version I've forgotten about    

I'm currently preparing a new build which solves this. A apologize for the inconvenience.
But it has some good side-effect because I've been busy over the last days to bring my tool chain up to the latest patches and the new build will use the latest runtime etc.

[Mario]

IMatch 5.0.132 is available for download:

https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?topic=1506.0

[jazbo]

I have just installed build 132.  All is well here in New Zealand. 

Thanks Mario

[dcb]

Now Mario knows who is really making an effort to test the beta version 

Happy New Year all.
Aubrey.

[BanjoTom]

Same lockout problem here in Kentucky.  Downloading v.132 now, and I'll hope that takes care of it!  Thanks, Mario et. al. . . .

[BanjoTom]

OK, installed beta 132, seems to be working fine!  Thanks, Mario . . .