Right a little history here, I have been doing my family genealogy for some time I use Heredis I used to run it on Mac and Windows but I am not so affluent to be able to upgrade my mac to a level I can run Heredis and windows has long gone from my other computer I had for some time been using Ubuntu but I seem to not be quite savvy enough with it when I have to use command line! So I looked at Zorin.
I Had problems with it loading to my mack so I tried it on my thinkpad using a live seasion where I tried Heredis using a trial version, Which is a full version but throttled to 50 entries this is lifted when one pays for the software and registers it.
So far everything worked fine but after having paid for and downloaded another heredis file made my installation disc and run it I started to have problems Little glitches where it did not load up the home page of heredis ( This did clear after re starting the computer a couple of times) but when I loaded a data file it would still only let me see 50 persons not the 400+ in my data file. Now I went to Heredis and tried to findout how the software registered and if I could enter the serial number manually but I got one of those infuriating AI bots that are about as intelligent as a 5 year old and just got pointed towards generic how too's.
It looks like the registration works likw this(to stop people cheeting) You cannot enter the serial number manually it is done after purchase and download, loading the software sends some sort of signal over the internet and it activates the software with an answering signal. Then in the account online it shows the computer it is registered on and giving you full access. It's this process that seems to have gone wrong.
Now the only way I can see of possibly sorting this is to totally remove it all from both Zorin and Wine/and the sudo windows installation but that usually involves command line and I am not a linux genius. The last resort is to remove Zorin and start all over again which is starting to look like the end game as I am pretty sure there will be no one here to help with this.
That big block of text with little punctuation is very difficult to read and comprehend.
From what I understand from it, is you were able to run Heredis OK on Ubuntu, but not on ZorinOS (which is based on Ubuntu).
I assume you were using Wine on Ubuntu and ZorinOS to run a Windows version of Heredis.
I suspect few on this forum will have tried Heredis on ZorinOS, or any other Linux distro for that matter. I am wondering if Wine Forum https://forum.winehq.org/ may offer you some advice.
Wine does not play well with all Windows apps. You may be better off using a VM or try out Winboat. But you will need a PC that has sufficient resources to cope with running two OS in parallel for both of these options.
See this re Winboat: Anyone tried Winboat?
Thank you not sure what happened with the text looked OK as I was typing. Mind you at 68 quite a lot looks good close up!
Heredis runs OK it is good for windows 10 and 11 I was running a live disk Zorin 18 education with the test heredis software all this is, is a full version throttled down to 50 entries. When it is registered it is supposed to be un throttled but tonight I noticed when I opened it up there was something different so will look into that. Thank you about the bottles. I hope the type is OK. All I have done is signed in with my computer as is The only way I can see to change the font is to zoom out?
Ah I have miss under stood/read I thought the comment was "Big Block Text" re reading with different glasses I see it was "Big block of text".
Right tomorrow is another day and the wife has given me chores for the morning so will play with it when I can and see if I can get it to work.
I promise I will try to be better at punctuation in the future
You could also give PlayOnLinux a shot — it often helps run programs that don’t work out of the box with Wine. It sets up separate environments for each app, so sometimes it can make tricky programs like Heredis run more smoothly without messing with your main Wine setup.
re reading with different glasses I see it was "Big block of text".