not familiar with that program, but maybe something like https://ss64.com/mac/opensnoop.html , can tell you what it's looking for, (IE it most likely installs some kind of watermark somewhere inobvious on your computer. If not though, I'd do some simple google searching for pencil+ crack.
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Tried opensnoop and tried searching for a crack with no luck :/
I know this goes down a different rabbit hole, and you may end up finding a new hobby in life but have you tried finding open source plugins or whatever? If you do not want to ditch Apple look for open source plug-ins, but my suggestion is ditch Apple and go Linux, it it is an intel Mac most distros will work if it is a Apple Silicon Mac there are less distros but still a few. Make sure there are alternative apps for everything you use prior to the jump though.
Basically everything i use is open source. I’ve tried the alternatives to pencil+ they don’t compare in speed or style
Can you run it in a VM? I see you say the trial is unended with a format so it’s probably not phoning home with a UUID. Maybe swap user accounts every 14 days?
I second that, new user account with different AppleID might do the trick
Try installing/running it while offline.
Also, most apps just put a preferences file at some obscure location. Try uninstalling it using AppCleanerX (make sure to remove everything it shows) and see whether that helps.
I use a similar program and deleted everything including any files in the .config folder
$ strings "PSOFT Pensil+ 4 Render App.app/Contents/MacOS/Pencil+ 4 Render App (Trial)"
...
pshi_%s.dat
psh_%s_%u.tmp
psh_%s_%u.dat
/Users/Shared/.etc
So, maybe check the /Users/Shared/.etc folder? Make sure to turn on hidden files in Finder by pressing ⌘⇧. (dot)! Also, look for some files starting with psh_.
EDIT: I've also seen something like /.config/ or /.config/PSOFT/ - so might be in your user directory or in the /Users/Shared/ one.
I deleted all of these but it didn’t help. Were you able to reset the trial?
Just a quick idea that will likely not work these days anymore, did you try change your systems time to an earlier date? Used to work with really old software but maybe worth a try.
I tried that
I made that strategy work on some obscure adobe plugin's rrial with runasdate idk if it helps
Maybe make timemachine backup before install, install only your app, try if timemachine restore can reset trial. Or compare filesystem before app install with after, see below.
Very technical way: try find every file
open/create during install or run. Linux has strace, macos has dtrace/execsnoop but depend on macos version difficult to setup. Then dump trace for all file operation (open/write/rename/...), find filepath from trace, try delete file that outside of directory you already try to delete. Prepare you might brick mac or not allowed because of tight security.
If not show any other file maybe also syscall trace useful if kernel give "uuid" to program. Also maybe macos has better way to debug app, like gdb maybe, and try to find all call to open , then intercept and log filepath like that.
Or install fresh system, take apfs snapshot (apparently possible using tmutil, or just make timemachine backup but iirc those not backup all file of system so might miss some), install only your app, take apfs snapshot, mount both snapshot and compare to find all change/new file. Maybe rsync -avin newsnap oldsnap for metadata compare or rsync -avicn newsnap oldsnap for content checksum compare (if actually change content without metadata somehow) or snapshot or backup diff using other program, i think timemachine could show backup diff somehow.
Edit: also wireshark for intercept and inspect network traffic.
i'm not sure if this would work, but maybe try FSMonitor to see which files are generated at installation?
does restoring to a timemachine backup reset the trial?
