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Re: Should I uninstall the old version before upgrading?

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• Subject: [mg86611] Re: Should I uninstall the old version before upgrading?
• From: Helen Read <read at math.uvm.edu>
• Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:08:52 -0500 (EST)
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Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> Helen Read wrote:
>>
>> I installed 6.0.2 on top of 6.0.1 on a fairly new XP desktop PC, and it 
>> failed to put the new DrawingTools palette where it need to go. I have 
>> always installed all versions of Mathematica to the default directory, 
>> and have not moved the palettes (or anything else) around. The problem 
>> did not occur on my (older) XP laptop. Someone from Wolfram called me on 
>> the phone to get some more details, because they had not been able to 
>> reproduce the issue. The suspicion, after talking to me, was that the 
>> reason for the different behavior was that my laptop had had older 
>> versions of Mathematica installed, whereas the first version installed 
>> on the desktop was 6.0.0. WRI was able to reproduce the problem after 
>> talking to me, but did not have a fix for it other than uninstalling, 
>> deleting the installation directory, and reinstalling.
>>
>> I didn't have the problem when I installed 6.0.2 over top of 6.0.1 on a 
>> Vista machine (which also never had anything prior to v.6), so this is 
>> seemingly an XP specific problem.

> When you say you "installed 6.0.2 on top of 6.0.1", do you mean into the 
> SAME $InstallationDirectory?
> 
> Except when a program installer (or documentation) explicitly tells me I 
> can do that, I would never do so.

I accept the default installation directory suggested by the installer, 
wherever that may be.

--
Helen Read
University of Vermont

• References:
  • Re: Should I uninstall the old version before upgrading?
    • From: Andrew Moylan <andrew.j.moylan@gmail.com>
  • Re: Should I uninstall the old version before upgrading?
    • From: Helen Read <read@math.uvm.edu>