With the release of OS X 10.7 Lion Apple made significant changes to the structure and permissions of various important folders. For example the Library folder in the user’s home folder is now hidden.
A consequence of this is that on Lion (and all versions after that) older versions of MacVector do not have the correct permissions to create the required MacVector License folder (Snow Leopard and earlier are fine). Note that only MacVector 9.5 and later will run on Lion. Much older versions will not run.
With the release of Mavericks this situation changed further. You must be running MacVector 10.5 or later. You cannot activate a license with MacVector 10.0. For Mavericks all versions before MacVector 13 are affected.
The following error is seen:
Unable to write the license details to disk. Please contact MacVector Support. [CODE=-5000]
The following steps should fix it:
“[StartupHD]/Library/Applications Support/ MacVector
[StartupHD] refers to whatever name you call your hard drive.)
“[StartupHD]/Library/Applications Support/ MacVector
Now try reactivating the license.
If this does not work then please contact Support@macvector.com.