The installation notes recommend that one uninstall the old version
before running the new setup, but the new setup now offers to uninstall
the old version.

1.  Is there any reason not to trust the new version's uninstall?  I.e.
is there any condition where I am better off doing a manual uninstall?

2.  Could the setup program offer, as an option, to install into the old
version's home folder?  (Since it detects the old version, can't it tell
that I want it to install into "e:\d2009\addons\EDB" without making me
type that in?)

Charles,

<< The installation notes recommend that one uninstall the old version
before running the new setup, but the new setup now offers to uninstall
the old version.

1.  Is there any reason not to trust the new version's uninstall?  I.e. is
there any condition where I am better off doing a manual uninstall? >>

No, the new uninstall will work fine.  We had to leave that text up there
for a while until the new "automatic uninstall" version was in the field for
a while.  I'll make a note to remove it this week.

<< 2.  Could the setup program offer, as an option, to install into the old
version's home folder?  (Since it detects the old version, can't it tell
that I want it to install into "e:\d2009\addons\EDB" without making me type
that in?) >>

Sure, no problem.  I should be able to save the existing value before the
uninstall and then use it again.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim

><< 2. Could the setup program offer, as an option, to install into the old
>version's home folder? (Since it detects the old version, can't it tell
>that I want it to install into "e:\d2009\addons\EDB" without making me type
>that in?) >>
>
>Sure, no problem. I should be able to save the existing value before the
>uninstall and then use it again.

I thought that was what you kept having problems with. From an email exchange
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<< Installing additional utilities warned that the previous version would be
installed but also lost the info on where it had been installed so wanted to
install in C:\Program Files\ElevateDB Additional\Version 2 not
C:\3rdParty\EDBUtils where I keep it. >>

I looked into this, and unfortunately Inno Setup does not support re-using
the existing information if the previous version is uninstalled first.
Therefore, there's really no way to make this work the way that you want,
short of modifying Inno Setup.  We need to make sure that any existing
version is uninstalled before the new version is installed, or we risk there
being conflicts with the package names, etc.
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Have you sorted it now?

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< I thought that was what you kept having problems with. From an email
exchange >>

I didn't think of saving the value in the registry and then re-reading it -
that was the problem.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com