BONOBO  Purchase of upgrade now worked well for me, got my license #, installed, all is fine now.

Thanks to the folks at VMware who resolved the situation quickly and thanks to all here who collectively held each others' hands ;-)

Cheers, Tom  
(Version 3.0)

BONOBO  OK, now all is well.

1. I found this link http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11004 further above here, that was a workaround with free trial # provided by the VMware folks.

2. I read another comment telling that upgrade purchase procedure now worked well for him.

3. Tried to purchase upgrade and it worked, I purchased the upgrade, got my license # and installed.

All is well now. Thanks, folks.

Greetings, Tom  
(Version 3.0)

BONOBO  OK, good to know that Misha of Macupdate (had to check your profile before I understood your comment ;-)) and team are investigating. I'm sure things will work out. I'll try to be patient for a while, and I'll let you know if/when I get a reply from VMware. Greetings, Tom in Germany  
(Version 3.0)

BONOBO  Same here. I've filed a support request at vmware.com and am now waiting for a reply.  
(Version 3.0)

BONOBO  I'd registered Saft quite some time ago, and for sure I've also upgraded every time Hao Li wanted us to upgrade which meant upgrade everytime Mac OS X was upgraded (10.3->10.4->10.5).

But now I'm fed up. EVERY TIME Safari got a minor update we had to wait for a new version of Saft, where Hao Li often only had to enable Saft for this version number (as some brave people had proved by hacking Saft's prefs file or something), this making us far too dependent on Hao Li.

Now I'm happily using Glims http://www.machangout.com/ which can do almost everything Saft can (and Glims is catching up FAST) plus quite a few other things.

So, Hao Li, it was *relatively* nice while it lasted: Though Saft was great, your communication and update policy was, uhm, let me say "suboptimal".

I'm splitting, I've found another love. Thanks and bye.  
(Version 12.0.0)

BONOBO  I also purchased the MU promo of VMware Fusion, I also saw that the registration page at VMware told me that this was a 1.0 license. Then I contacted the support and got the answer that there was no difference between 1.0 and 2.0 licenses, that in fact there are only 1.0 licenses. At least that's how I understood it.

I assume that all 2.x updates will be free for us, and that the upgrade to 3.x will be a paid upgrade, as usual with most commercial software.

What makes me back away from this update is that the name of the image says "light" at the end, and I usually don't like "light" software, I want the whole dang thing, especially if I paid for something.

Would somebody please enlighten me about what "light" means in this context?

Thanks in advance, Tom  
(Version 2.0.6b1)

BONOBO  What a pity.

- Developer wants a new license payment

- Saft Snow Leopard Beta makes my Safari hang

- 32-bit only? WTF?

I once was a big fan of this software but now, I think, it's time to move on.  
(Version 12.0b)

BONOBO  Vielen herzlichen Dank fuer ein neues Update des Wetter-Widgets, es ist mir ein unschaetzbares Hilfsmittel.

Thanks a lot for another update of the "Wetter" widget, it is an indispensable utility for me.  
(Version 4.0)

BONOBO  "More Information" leads me to a RapidShare download -- this is not really inspiring my confidence.   
(Version 4.0)

BONOBO  FYI: This was also offered by Software Update to my mid-2006 17" MBP.  
(Version )

BONOBO  Thanks a LOT for your kind comment, Gabriel!

Very nice that you intend to keep us Tiger users also hapy, and I look forward to OSXplanet 2 for Tiger :-)

Cheers, Tom  
(Version 2.0b02)

BONOBO  Hello Gabriel Otte,

this is just to beg you to PLEASE don't abandon users of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger".

I for one am still running 10.4.11 and I'd LOVE to step up to OSXplanet 2. I'd even donate a second time if I could run OSXplanet 2 on my Tiger installation.

Thanks, Tom  
(Version 2.0b01U)

BONOBO  Thanks so much for letting us Tiger users in again, I wouldn't want to use my iTunes without iTunesVolume again.  
(Version 1.2.1)

BONOBO  Please provide your faithful users (who have donated) with a version that still runs on Tiger.

Thanks in advance, Tom  
(Version 1.2)

BONOBO  I just donated for a second time within the past 3 years (I think), because I'm very glad that Mike Bombich is continuing his work on CCC.

I especially love CCC's ability to automatically initiate a clone (i.e. ask me whether to clone or skip) whenever I connect a particular HD, this makes backups much more practical and I hope to convince many more of my clients more easily to do regular backups (and to donate as well ;) )  
(Version 3.1.1)

BONOBO  Since I met Butler about 2 years ago I've become dependent of this amazing, I repeat: AMAZING little program and I wouldn't want to use my Mac w/o Butler anymore.

Developer is responsive and not only his software but also his price models are very user-friendly.

Can't wait for v. 5.0 ...  
(Version 4.1.6)

BONOBO  Nice, unobtrusive and mostly self-explaining little app which lets me switch songs/playlists and rate songs, which also gives me info about the currently playing song.

I wouldn't want to use my iTunes w/o iTunesVolume any more -- five stars in every category.  
(Version 1.0.1)

BONOBO  Yes, the best of all utilities has become even better.

The comments are now preserved when copying files. And more...

But see for yourself.

For me Butler has become absolutely indispensable, I wish I could give six stars.  
(Version 4.0b11)