Packaging VueScan

[damienbarrett]

I can't for the life of me find out where VueScan is storing its serial number information. I've used Composer 8.7 to scan for file differences to create a package and all that shows is the Application itself (of course) and a vuescan.ini and vuescan.log file in ~/Library/Preferences. Operating under the pretense that it's stored in ~/Library/Preferences/vuescan.ini, I deleted that file and relaunched VueScan expecting it to ask for a serial number again and it didn't.

I also used fseventer to see which files are touched/read while VueScan is launched, but it didn't show me anything that jumped out as being a licensing file.

Anyone know definitively where VueScan 9.x stores it's licensing information? I want to package up the software for distribution to our Fine Arts students via Self Service.

[damienbarrett · Accepted solution]

Found it. Not sure why it didn't show up the first time I ran a Composer differential. But the 2nd time it showed me an invisible file located here: ~/.vuescanrc

And the same file in /Users/Shared/.vuescanrc

Also not sure why fseventer doesn't show the Vuescan accessing this licensing file when you launch as it clearly must. Weirdness on this hump day.