How to change SmartGit's licensing option after 30 days of commercial use on ubuntu?

Question

while installing smartgit 3.0.4 I checked the commercial licensing option, because I was just clicking "next" button : ) (30 day trial and then you have to buy it). Now today is my 31st day of using SG and I can't change my licensing options (reinstalling smartgit doesn't help) and I'm not able to use SG anymore without paying (I'm not using it for commercial purposes). Do you know how to fix it?

I don't have these files on my ubuntu: http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/documentation.html?page=installation

Equivocate

Answer 1

I went on the internet and I found this:

To alter the license. First, go to

Windows: %APPDATA%\syntevo\SmartGit<main-smartgit-version>

Windows portable: SmartGit\.settings\preferences.yml

OS X: ~/Library/Preferences/SmartGit/<main-smartgit-version>

Unix/Linux: ~/.smartgit/<main-smartgit-version>

and remove the file settings.xml.

If you have updated many times, you may need to remove the updates folder as well.

It helped me on Windows, hope it helps you on other systems as well.

Neckcloth

I could not find settings.xml file and removing the whole folder worked as well. rm -rf ~/.smartgit/ – Selmore

quickest way in linux. rm -rf ~/.smartgit – Civet

Can you please mention where to enter the command for windows..? – Catechetical

@Parthiban M rm -rf ~/.smartgit/ doesn't work on windows, only on unix systems. – Utile

It can be in the following directory. C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\syntevo – Timmons

If you want just to change license, do not remove settings.xml. Switch off SmartGIT, rename license file located in SmartGIT's settings folder to license-bkp and start SmartGit. It will ask for new license file. – Measurable

\AppData\Roaming\syntevo\SmartGit\ – Chari

Well it works but it deletes the settings as well. Not a good solution IMHO. – Dermatology

If you want to keep the rest of your settings and just reset the license, look for the 'listx' key and just delete that object. Of course only do this if you have accidentally selected commercial and you are genuinely a personal user – Potted

Hey ! this solution is not working in Mac , I am not able to find Smartgit folder in Library/Preferecnes , I am smartgit-macosx-17_0_1.dmg – Belligerence

I confirm this works on Windows just the path given here misses the roaming part - %APPDATA%\roaming\syntevo\SmartGit\<main-smartgit-version> – Hypocrite

I know we usually don't do this in stackoverflow, but I just wanted to say thanks. May the ancient Gods bless you. – Fidelfidela

The ~/.smartgit/ directory no longer exists in Linux. See this answer instead: https://mcmap.net/q/172439/-how-to-change-smartgit-39-s-licensing-option-after-30-days-of-commercial-use-on-ubuntu – Augie

Following @Potted 's comment, the listx key is now found in preferences.yml from Version 19 – Indeterminable

Have to delete preferences.yml now – Acronym

Also that is required to remove firstUsedKey from preferences. Moreover, if you see only commercial license option, but you are fairly non-commercial one delete "license" file too. Checked on Win portable version – Sob

Answer 2

Starting from version 19.1 they have renamed filenames:

➜ SmartGit grep -rl 'listx' ./19.1
./19.1/preferences.yml
./19.1/.backup/preferences.yml

It is possible to delete them to reset the license setting.

Sextant

I had to delete my license files in that same directory too. – Upgrade

Answer 3

For version 19.1 and above goto specified directory and delete these mentioned files:

1. C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\syntevo\SmartGit\20.1<smart-git-version>

   • preferences.yml
   • license file

2. C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\syntevo\SmartGit\20.1\.backup

   • preferences.yml

For the previous version goto specified directory and delete mentioned file:

1. C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\syntevo\SmartGit\17<smart-git-version>

   • setting.xml

Inertia

Answer 4

I use linux and the answers did not help me.
I had to erase the folder ~/.config/smartgit to make it work again. This is what the documentation is saying

Default Location of SmartGit's Settings Directory
Windows %APPDATA%\syntevo\SmartGit\ (%APPDATA% is the path defined in the environment variable APPDATA)
Mac OS ~/Library/Preferences/SmartGit/ (the Finder might not show the ~/Libraries directory by default, but you can invoke open ~/Library from a terminal)
Linux/Unix ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/smartgit/ (if the environment variable XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined, ~/.config is used instead)

Automotive

Thanks, in fedora i ended up doing this. – Buckish

Junio's answer is a less invasive way of doing this. – Dari

Worked for me, thanks! – Excursion

Answer 5

Since version 22.1 non-commercial license is available upon request only

Syntevo's blog from 19 October 2022 explains that licensing options have been changed with version 22.1. Non-commercial license is only available for:

1. open-source developers,
2. students and employees of (select) educational institutions, and
3. charitable non-governmental organizations,
4. hobby users (requires 23.1 preview).

Any of these have conditions that need to be fulfilled, before a non-commercial license can be issued, or have some restrictions. For example, a hobby license restricts your use to repositories "where you are the only author/committer or which are open source".

Xuanxunit

Hobby license is available again since 23.1 (preview 6). You can request a license here: syntevo.com/register-non-commercial/#hobby – Hemangioma

Thanks, @CrouZ, I accepted your edit and added some more info on hobby license. – Xuanxunit

Answer 6

My own solution on Linux (under ~/.config/smartgit/19.1) is to comment or remove line listx from preferences.yml file and reopen program.

Deleting the all folders will make you reconfigure everything (useless).

Grivation

Answer 7

Had v22 commercial. This helped me: remove C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\syntevo and use 21 version from https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/download/archive/

Lactometer

Answer 8

For 19.1 above on Linux,

Close the App or any window of Smartgit

Go to:

/home/[USERNAME]/.config/smartgit/[CURRENT OR LAST VERSION]

open the file:

preferences.yml

Search for:

"listx: {" in this file

You will find something like this:

listx: {ePP: 1607503071922, eUT: -9223377036854775808, nRT: -9223377036854775808, eV: '20.1', uid: emobf7q63s83}

So now all you need is delete the string inside the {} So it will be like this:

listx: {}

Now save the file and start Smartgit. You will have all repositories and other preferences and you will be asked for set the type of license.

Hughmanick

Answer 9

it would be helpful to know if you use linux or windows. in linux the settings are located in ~/.smartgit/3. You could try to remove this folder. Imho this is also worth a try in Windows.

Uniliteral

Answer 10

Here is a solutions for MAC PC:

Open terminal and type following command to show hidden files:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

after that go to current user folder using finder, then you can see the Library folder in it which is hidden type

suppose in my case the username is 'Delta' so the folder path is:

OS X: ~Delta/Library/Preferences/SmartGit/<main-smartgit-version>

Remove settings file and change option to Non Commercial..

Barrera

plus 1 for specifying that its needed Library of specific user – Raphaelraphaela

Answer 11

I also raced through the first install on ubuntu and selected the default 30 day trial version instead of the non-commercial version.

There is a blog on the syntevo site that addresses this issue.

After unpacking the tar file I had a dir called smartgithg-4_0_3. I moved this folder to my home directory and renamed it smartgit. After running ./bin/smartgithg.sh, another folder was created called .smartgit (note the . prefix).

I simply deleted the .smartgit folder (the dir tree with all the .xml files) and ran the ,/bin/smarthg.sh script again. The whole install process is repeated. Select the non commercial option when it appears.

Eydie

Answer 12

Working fine for windows by navigating to %APPDATA%\syntevo\SmartGit\ and delete all settings.xml, then open the installed software

Normally

Answer 13

on Mac:

• First goto ~/Library/Preferences/SmartGit/19.1
• Second goto preferences.yml file and just comment listx line
• Third open smart git

Expendable

Answer 14

Smartgit is not available for free usage after 22.1 update.

For continue to using smartgit freely follow these steps:

rm -rf ~/.config/smartgit
sudo apt-get remove smartgit 

Now we got rid of old version;

Download older and free version of Smartgit from link below https://www.syntevo.com/downloads/smartgit/archive/smartgit-20_2_6.deb

Install and done!

Macromolecule

Unfortunately there's a new popup message that says "This outdated SmartGit version can't be evaluated any more". And there's no other option available. I had tried all options under Linux system. Maybe it's time to buy a license or find another free git client. – Grivation

Answer 15

OSX

cd ~/Library/Preferences/SmartGit/
sed -i '' '/listx/d' ./*/preferences.yml
rm */license

Windows portable path to preferences.yml:

SmartGit\.settings\preferences.yml

Regenerative

Answer 16

new 2021 hack for Mac:

• First goto ~/Library/Preferences/SmartGit
• Second delete whatever version do you have i have deleted the whole 20.1 version folder
• Third open smart git

Expendable

Answer 17

just delete the settings.xml and try againn to setup smartgitHg

Codeclination

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you can find settings.xml here AppData\Roaming\syntevo\SmartGit\6\settings.xml – Codeclination

Answer 18

Newest versions of SmartGit contain settings under installation folder. So to reset trial go to the install folder, ex:

C:\Program Files\SmartGit

and remove(rename) the .settings directory

Cantabile

This is wrong. The .settings directory is in your home directory, except of when using the portable bundle. – Foliose

Answer 19

For Ubuntu 22.04 and SmartGit 19.1:

To remove the preferences.yml file in SmartGit on Ubuntu 22.04 with version 19.1, follow these steps:

1. Open File Manager:

   • Launch your file manager.

2. Show Hidden Files:

   • Press Ctrl + H to reveal hidden files and folders. This step is necessary as the configuration files are often hidden.

3. Navigate to SmartGit Configuration Directory:

   • Go to ~/.config/smartgit/19.1 in the file manager.
   • This is where SmartGit stores its configuration files for version 19.1.

4. Remove preferences.yml:

   • Once inside the 19.1 folder, locate the preferences.yml file.
   • Right-click on preferences.yml and select "Delete" or "Move to Trash".
   • Alternatively, you can remove it via the terminal with:

rm ~/.config/smartgit/19.1/preferences.yml

Gentes

Answer 20

I have been using windows for the last 13 years. I found this solution to be truly working for me. I recommend you to follow these steps:

• let's start by deleting this folder C:\Users\Your-name\AppData\Roaming\syntevo

• Completely uninstall smart git from the control panel, uninstall programs.

• Again re-install the smart git and change the default position of installing directory.

• While configuring smart git, make sure that the non-commercial option is selected that will help you to use the latest as well as a free version for lifetime.

Daubery

Answer 21

I deleted the entire Config folder but preserved the files repositories.yml repository-cache repository-grouping.yml. after running SmartGit, it created the config folder (i think it used the config from an older build (to save things like my git credentials)), then i copied back my three files and i had all my repositories which is the most important info i needed.

Physiological

Answer 22

For mac users: in new version there is no setting.xml, alternate way is to

navigate to SmartGit preferences folder using terminal

cd /Library/Preferences/SmartGit/

use ls command to see list of folders .. simply delete SmartGit version folder you find using command rm -r <main-smartgit-version> and reopen the SmartGit app. :)

Iceman

Answer 23

Just use their latest Preview version

and you are good to go

Previously they wanted you to use just latest stable version now they want you to use latest unstable preview version if you dont want to pay.

Today is 22 June 2023 and I have installed SmartGit 23.1 Preview 6 as they have mentioned here https://www.syntevo.com/register-non-commercial/#hobby

TLDR;
you can also apply for a personal free licence if you want to use stable version, obviously you dont want to do your project critical sstuff on preview version but for me preview works just fine because I mostly use command line and use smartgit just to view things on GUI I dont make commit or merge using this software I trust command line and I belive just viewing my project in preview version can not harm my project.

Basilius

As a person that never pay for anything, today i installed the unstable preview version unwillingly like a dog. – Genesa

Answer 24

2023, On the new version of the MAC OS, remove the settings in the following path:

To reset the trial on macOS, you can simply delete the ~/Library/Application Support/SmartGit/preferences.yml file. When you start SmartGit again, it will prompt you to enter your license information. You can choose the "Non-Commercial" option to continue using SmartGit for free

Flavopurpurin