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Lab 4 saying I my free-trial has expired and "file not found message"

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By strugglingsenior - 4/15/2014

Hi everyone, 

I am a undergrad student trying to use Inquisit 4 lab to run the Competitive Reaction Time Task for my senior research experiment. I want to try and only use the 30-day free trial offered but I am using a school computer and someone else using the computer before me had already downloaded Inquisit 4, and its free trial period has long since expired. I tried uninstalling the program and downloading Inquisit 4 again. I thought this would work at first because in the opening page it allows me to "Run Free Trial" rather than forcing me to register (before it wouldn't let me run the free trial). However, when I go to run the script I get a message saying that my free trial has run out. I assume this is because millisecond keeps track of which computer is has downloaded to, but is there a way around this so that I do not have to purchase a license? 

Also, even if I try to run the script with the test monkey I get an error-message "File not found. Please verify that the file path...is correct." I have not changed anything in the script, I just wanted to run it first and see how the default script ran. The script is saved to a network server, could this be the problem? 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 
By Dave - 4/15/2014

The time for the free trial starts ticking when Inquisit 4 gets first installed on a given machine. Removing it and subsequently reinstalling will not (and isn't supposed to) reset the trial period.

As for the 'file not found' error, this could mean any number of things. In case you downloaded a ZIP archive from the task library, you ought to make sure  that (a) you've extracted the script and any supporting files to your computer and (b) that they are stored in a location where you have proper read/write access.
By strugglingsenior - 4/15/2014

Thank you. 

I assumed that the reason was because of that, I take it there is no way around it then. 

Can I download Inquisit 3 and run scripts from there? 
By Dave - 4/15/2014

> I take it there is no way around it then.

Your options are:
- Find a different machine where Inquisit 4 was never installed before and use that.
- Contact sales<at>millisecond.com with the machine's computer key, explain the situation and ask if they'd be willing to provide instructions on how to perform a one-time-reset of the trial period.

> Can I download Inquisit 3 and run scripts from there?

In general: No. Specifically: It will depend on the particular script -- if there's an Inquisit 3 version in the library, that's fine. If not, you'd have to modify the script to not make use of any features specific to Inquisit 4 / not available in Inquisit 3. The latter may or may not be possible, depending on the particular procedure.