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Some questions on licensing and more
 
Hi there,

I'm testing TB trial version and I'm impressed so far.

This is probably not the place to ask this type of questions, but after emailing Ritlabs twice in the last week and no response so far, I'll ask here anyway.
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I have a desktop and laptop machine, both my own, I'm the only user. I very often switch from one to the other, so I obviously need TB on both.
Do I need to purchase 1 or 2 licenses?

And another one, what's the most simple way to sync both installations - is just copying the mail folder from PC1 to PC2(overwriting existing files) enough to have everything (emails, filters, address books etc.) synced for all accounts?
(install and mail folder paths are the same on both PC's)
In other words which settings are kept outside the mail folder (like in registry)

And Yes I have read about the built-in sync features in the help, but this seems just too much ultra-complicated - I have to do this and that on PC1, on PC2, transfer files back and forth and so on. Operations are elementary but too much and if you do this say 3 times a week you'll surely screw something soon.

Thank you  
 
 
You'd need two licenses.

The way you describe is good enough to sync two computers provided that you do that every time that you change systems, so when you hop in the car with your notebook without syncing it before and then send some mail at a customer's then you're definitely out of sync.
Your suggested way of syncing will sync everything except the stuff in the registry, the stuff in the registry is the stuff that can be set at:
Options -> Preferences ->....
The rest (account settings, folder properties, filters, templates, etc) is stored in files in the mail directory.  
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I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.
 
Roelof thank you for the response.

But about the license, I'm in doubt.
The EULA that comes with the program says
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You are granted a non-exclusive licence to use the program on one computer at a time.
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I fit into this, although I'll have it installed on 2 PC's, I will never use both copies simultaneously, nor anyone else will ever use any of the copies.
I didn't find anything else in the EULA that is related to this question.

Please let me know why would I need 2 licenses. In case you use TB this way, maybe you have received an answer to this from developers?
Or the registered versions are activated online and you can only activate 1 copy?

thanks  
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