[3dem] Gatan camera PC upgrade

Thu Sep 1 18:07:05 PDT 2022

David,

I don't know how things work in GMS 1.x, but from my experience, the license installer is doing nothing but copying the license files you have to this folder:  "C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\_GatanInstall"
Then the GMS installer reads the license files from this folder. I did this for GMS 2.x and I transferred the license to a new computer using this way. For GMS 1.x, the procedure may be different. You can also find the license installer in the folder for the free offline version of GMS 3.x that can be downloaded from Gatan's website<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.gatan.com/installation-instructions*Step1__;Iw!!Mih3wA!DbS21WaydgZrtUmwQ4UogqbopWzl3FePpgsZwQPJPRnPB1nmd_KQ5TkYzOe26MlYNih1AQ0glVQQSyHcc3tuuRdo1x2LzFjj$  >. The license installer I downloaded from there worked for me for GMS 2.x. But as I said, it is just copying your license files into the above-mentioned folder. So, in summary, this is what worked for me:

  1.  Copy the license files from the old computer from "C:\ProgramData\Gatan\Licenses"
  2.  Use the license installer that comes with the free offline version of GMS 3.x and place the license files you copied from the old computer in the same folder as the license installer. Running the installer will copy the license files to "C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\_GatanInstall". You can delete the license files of the free offline version in this folder.
  3.  Run the GMS installer and hopefully the installer will read the license files and install the software.

Cheers,
Ehsan
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Subject: Re: Gatan camera PC upgrade

Ehsan,

Thanks.  I know where to find the license files.  What is not clear is whether simply copying old licenses onto the new machine will solve the problem, or if the installer program from Gatan does things like modify the registry.

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Hi David,

I am not sure about Windows XP, but in Windows 10, you can find the Gatan license files in the following folder:
C:\ProgramData\Gatan\Licenses
Note that "ProgramData" is hidden in Windows by default, and you may need to change the view setting of your folders to be able to see it. So, you can probably find the license files in a similar folder in the old Windows XP computer and copy them to the new computer. Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Ehsan Nikbin
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Subject: [3dem] Gatan camera PC upgrade

Hi,

We have an ancient microscope that has an ancient Gatan camera controlled by a Windows XP computer.  The computer has been giving us trouble and our campus IT people would like to see it vanish, so we are planning to upgrade it.  I was all set to pay for an upgrade from our ancient version of DigitalMicrograph (GMS 1.x, if I remember correctly) to GMS 3.x, but I learned that our camera is not supported in recent versions of GMS and that an upgrade simply would not work.

I was able to build a Windows 10 virtual machine, and to install an older version of DigitalMicrograph onto it.  That VM obviously didn't have a camera attached, but that process indicated that I might be able to install the older version of DM on a modern machine and have everything work properly.  So that is the current plan.

However, I'm not sure how to transfer the current DM license from the existing Windows XP machine to the new installation.  Gatan normally supplies an installer program that takes care of this, but we no longer have that program.

Has anyone transferred a license and if so, could you please explain how?  Thanks.

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            David Gene Morgan
        Electron Microscopy Center
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             IU Bloomington
          812 856 1457 (office)
          812 856 3221 (3200)
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