Sage 50 US Activation Service Interruption

Sage 50 US accounting software is available with the new features and technologies, although after download it is important to activate the service. However, sometimes the user may face the Sage 50 US Activation Service Interruption issue which is a very common issue.

The below article covers the solutions to get the issues to resolve of Sage 50 US Activation Service Interruption. Let’s start with the method to get rid of Sage 50 Error.

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Causes for Sage 50 US Activation Service Interruption

Before proceeding to the solution method you need to know about the causes which are very much important to get the issues to fix. Major causes for the Sage 50 US Activation Service Interruption are given below.

Antivirus or Software blocking the activation
Damaged or bad datapath files
Windows system date is not correct
dat damaged or hidden
Bad installation of Pervasive Database manager

Solution to fix Sage 50 US Activation Service Interruption

The below steps should be performed on that computer where company data files are stored.

Section 1 – Firewall or Antivirus blocking activation process

In this scenario, you need to disable antivirus of firewall

Section 2 – Clientinfo.xml file

Close Sage 50 on all computers
Locate your data path
Now move the clientinfo.xml to outside of your data path or else, rename it
Double click and open the Sage 50, check if the error is still exist or not

Section 3 – Data path files

Quit the Sage program running on all computers
Browse your data path
Rename or move the following files to a new folder outside of your data path

o ENVSESS.DAT

o OPTIONS.DAT

o SERIAL.DAT

o SERIAL.DAT.BAK

o ENVUSER.BAK

o ENVSETNG.DAT

o *.LCK( all files with LCK extension)

o *.PTL(all files with PTL extension)

o SoftwareInstallations.xml

o Entitlements.xml

Go and check Sage 50 again if you are getting the option to activate manually
Now select the manual activation, go ahead as per the instructions coming
Still, getting these issues to go to the next step

Section 4 – Uninstall and Reinstall Pervasive

Steps to remove the Actian

Close Sage 50
Now press the Windows+R key simultaneously to get run window
Type Control panel and hit enter
After, opening the control panel select program and features
Now, uninstall any listed version of Actian PSQL Workgroup R2( for Sage 50 US edition database engine name should be as Pervasive PSQL Workgroup Engine)
After it, close the Control Panel
Again, press Windows +R keys
Once run window comes type C:\ and click OK
Now check if the folders pvsq and pvswarch are available, delete them
If PSQL_v[version number]_Install.log is available, delete this as well
Go to C:\Windows
Delete pvsw.log if available
Go to C:\ProgramData
Rename Pervasive Software folder to OldPervasive Software
Go to C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files(x86)
At this step, rename Actian folder to OLDActian(In Sage 50 2019 or earlier versions rename the pervasive Software as OLDPervasive Software if it is available)
Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files or C:\Program Files (x86)\Common files
Check if the Actian folder is available, rename it to OLDActian(For Sage 50 US 2019 or earlier, rename the Pervasive Software Shared to OLDPervasive Software Shared)
Close Computer
Again press Windows +R keys
Type regedit and click ok
Choose Ok
Do the right click on Computer, export and save the registry backup to Computer Desktop
Browse HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow643Node
Delete Pervasive Software and PEYX4989ZK
Finally close the registry error

Steps to Manually Reinstall Actian

Go to the installation folder available at path C:\Sage\Sage 50_[Version]
Open PervasiveMin folder
Run SetupWorkgroup32_x86.exe ( for 2020 version) or PervasivePSQLv11WGE.msi( 2019.2 and earlier versions)
Select Next and accept the license and agreement >>> click next again
Select option run as service and click Next
Click on complete option and>>> then go to Next
Install Actian by selecting Install option
Finally, click on Finish

Looking for Help?

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