Mountain Lion Upgrade and SharkFX not activating (fixed)
Saturday 28 July 2012 Filed in: Apple
I upgraded to Mountain Lion the other day on the iMac, and when I went to open SharkFX, I got this screen.
![flexible](mountain_lion_sharkfx_not_activating.png)
So you click on “Activate” and the screen redraws and loops endlessly showing this same window, unless you click on “Run Demo” or “Exit”
After asking a question on Twitter and Googling to no avail, I thought I’d better fix it myself. After relocating the application into my user folder, I got a different error message, which pointed to a permissions issue, so I clicked on “Get Info” and all was revealed.
![flexible](screen-shot-2012-07-28-at-22.13.42.png)
There was no user assigned to the iMac even though the application was present. So a quick mod to include me aka Mike Crane in the “Sharing & Permissions” soon had it sorted
![flexible](screen-shot-2012-07-28-at-22.14.01.png)
![flexible](screen-shot-2012-07-28-at-22.14.14.png)
![flexible](screen-shot-2012-07-28-at-22.02.47.png)
Once I restarted the iMac I was good to go again, and Shark FX loaded no problem.
![flexible](mountain_lion_sharkfx_not_activating.png)
So you click on “Activate” and the screen redraws and loops endlessly showing this same window, unless you click on “Run Demo” or “Exit”
After asking a question on Twitter and Googling to no avail, I thought I’d better fix it myself. After relocating the application into my user folder, I got a different error message, which pointed to a permissions issue, so I clicked on “Get Info” and all was revealed.
![flexible](screen-shot-2012-07-28-at-22.13.42.png)
There was no user assigned to the iMac even though the application was present. So a quick mod to include me aka Mike Crane in the “Sharing & Permissions” soon had it sorted
![flexible](screen-shot-2012-07-28-at-22.14.01.png)
![flexible](screen-shot-2012-07-28-at-22.14.14.png)
![flexible](screen-shot-2012-07-28-at-22.02.47.png)
Once I restarted the iMac I was good to go again, and Shark FX loaded no problem.