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redfish

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Uninstall recommend an option
« on: January 22, 2019, 02:02:41 am »

I just purchased the Master Liciense of v25. Previous one I had was v23.

Just looked on the forums and could not see about uninstalling a say like me a previous version 23 now I have v24 up and running.
I run the uninstall and see this. See attachment.

Now I know I want to keep my license and library but not sure if I should tick Remove all media center registry entries as will this effect my new v24 version I have just installed.

So wonder if you could consider having another tick box (to make it easy for people like me) that said something like
I am uninstalling previous version as I am using a newer version

Then the uninstall would automatically remove only what is needed to be removed of the older version and I can keep on going with the newer one.
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Re: Unistall recommend an option
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2019, 09:13:37 am »

Hello redfish welcome to Interact

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Re: Unistall recommend an option
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2019, 09:43:33 am »

Honestly, with the last few rounds of major version upgrades, I've found the following...

Install new version...
Get it all up and running, all working tickety-boo... lovely...
Uninstall previous version... New version library safely installed in it's new version folder, so I remove registry and library files (thumbnails are in that library folder and can cause it to grow to many gigabytes in size)
A fair bit of stuff is then found to be broken in new version...
Reinstall new version...
All is good in the MC world again.

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Re: Uninstall recommend an option
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2019, 06:12:08 pm »

Thanks for procedure.
I will write this down for when I upgrade again in a couple of years. I ain't getting any younger these days.  ;)
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Re: Uninstall recommend an option
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2019, 10:22:22 pm »

You're welcome.

While I think about it, MC puts coverart files in the appdata\Roaming\JRiver\Media Center xx\Cover Art folder by default...

I changed the location of mine so many years ago I can't remember when. Does anyone know how a major version upgrade handles that? If it doesn't copy them into the new version folder automatically, you should do that manually prior to uninstalling.

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