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Is it possible to run Designspark without an internet connexion?

2 Feb 2012

York

France

Hello,

I work on an industrial project (military) and I have a development computer without and internet connexion. I have to use designspark on it but it seems to require an internet connexion to install/work.

So I would like to know if it is possible to use (firstlly install) Designspark on my developeme,t computer.

Regards

Julien

Replies

Bugs Bunny

Belgium
14 weeks ago

Hi daveegg!

Thanks for forewarding my reply, I was away...

B.B.

daveegg

United Kingdom
14 weeks ago

Another RS designer met the same problem. Here follows a little bit more detailed copy of my answer, posted a few days ago. Didn't you see it?

“I have found the solution to your problem. Here is how I proceeded.

I completely uninstalled DS 3.0 and removed my wifi key to make sure to be offline. I used “Search” (in the Start Menu) to find and remove any undeleted files. I also ran Ccleaner and Tweak Now Power Pack (free ads for free software) to clean some residual registry's keys. I reinstalled DS, selecting my second partition (all my programs are installed outside Win XP's partition, for clarity purposes), and asked the program to install data files in the same folder -as usual, to keep every similar things together.

Well.

Here is the trick, now.

When you receive the dialog box asking to connect to http://designspark.eu/data, if you click OK, the next screen shows you that the software is searching for the file "support.txt". I did the same thing, with "Search" of XP. And I was surprised to discover that...

THIS FILE IS ALREADY PRESENT IN DS, IN ITS OWN DIRECTORY!

I restarted the program, and copied “D:\designspark pcb” as location for downloading support.txt.

And it was OK!

I met however a little problem: as it was a new copy of DS's installation file, the serial number had changed. I reconnected my wifi, asked for a new code, disconnected my wifi again, restarted DS, and pasted my new activation code.

And DS is running as before...”

daveegg

United Kingdom
14 weeks ago

This was answered before here