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Summary: | Can not chose install directory | ||
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Product: | installer | Reporter: | marksarnold <marksarnold> |
Component: | Code | Assignee: | Richard Gregor <rgregor> |
Status: | VERIFIED FIXED | ||
Severity: | blocker | CC: | jchalupa |
Priority: | P1 | ||
Version: | 3.x | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Windows 3.1/NT | ||
Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: |
Description
marksarnold
2002-09-04 18:45:42 UTC
Is it problem of 3.4 or 3.4dev installer? Did you try the same installer on Win2k and WinNT4? If you missed the import of old settings so there should be Import Settings Wizard invoked during the first startup of IDE. I tried to install NB 3.4 on my NB 4.0 workstation and I did get the
'Installation Directory' dialog and could choose the target location.
I was not given the 'Import Settings' option, although I had NB 3.3.2
properly installed. The 3.4 installed just didn't seem to detect it.
Re:
> If you missed the import of old settings so there
> should be Import Settings Wizard invoked during
> the first startup of IDE.
Unfortunately not true. The Import Settings Wizard is invoked only
when the userdir doesn't exist or is empty. This is not the case after
you run the 3.4 installer, because it creates the userdir and
pre-populates it with a couple of files. Among others it also creates
the system/dontshowisw. I may not have the best understanding of the
installer functions, but the filename looks pretty self-explanatory.
I can think of two workarounds. Either the user needs to delete the
system folder created by the installer before the first start, or
choose a different userdir location and start the IDE with the
-userdir <newdir> option.
Fixed.Problem was that on WinNT installer read registry file using UTF-16. *** Issue 27832 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** Verified |