License Error & Disk Corruption

[SonicREP]

I have had a bad set of occurrences that has resulted in my hard disk becoming unusable. I was rescaning with MinimSever on my Mac while copying other unrelated files in the Finder. I came back to find the computer frozen with the Minimserver icon highlighted in the menu bar. This happened once before this week and after restarting my mac and then doing the scan, everything worked again. This time the Mac would not boot. Later I find that the Mac's Disk First aid says the ASFS file system on the SSD disk has been corrupted ,and the disk was not longer bootable/mountable for writing. I can't pinpoint the culprit, but one of the files identified by Disk First Aid as problematic is MinimServer/Flac-2.mcache, which is built by Minimserver during the rescan of my content directories. The MacOs error was "Overlapped extext allocation" meaning the OS has lost track of it's free space and can't reliably write to the disk IOW a corrupted file system.

Again, I don't know how MinimServer is involved, if it is preventable, or was it extremely bad timing on the crash. However I wouldn't expect something this catastrophic because of a rescan. I bring this up as background on the license error issue I am now facing.

I am trying to move to my server to another Mac where I previously had minimserver installed as a test installation from a long time ago that had a starter edition license. I had a full license on the crashed computer with an expiry 3 April 2026. I changed contentDir to my backup disks, tried to rescan. This worked, but under the starter license. The licence page on the website does not allow me upgrade to starter license to the full license I have. It says

MinimServer 2.2 update 259, Copyright © 2012-2025 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
Your license type is Starter. For more information, select the License tab.
License server error 500: [c9ca246a] Incorrect license type 4; resetting to Starter Edition
License server error 500: [ca16627d] Incorrect license type 4

Media server status for Test MinimServer[MacBook-Pro-3.local]: Running


I even tried copying the minimserver.license from my previously working server, and that didn't work.

It hasn't been a fun few days.
I want to get my server operating again and with my full license.

I'd appreciate remedies to get my server working again.

The disk corruption during a Minimserver rescan is a different issue to investigate.