Crash of 2.2.9 after install of 2.3.9

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Feb 18 16:55:15 EST 2010


Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am not sure if it is safe to install GnuCash 2.2.9 and 2.3.x at the same 
> time. Even though they are installed in different paths, there is only one set 
> of registry keys that will be used by both versions. I wonder whether due to 
> this your 2.2.9 tries to use data from 2.3.9.
>
> You can try to uninstall both versions and then reinstall 2.2.9 and see if 
> that works again.

Indeed, it is NOT safe to install multiple versions of GnuCash on
Win32.  The registry keys interact poorly.  (We should try to fix this
in a future version).

You will need to completely uninstall 2.3.9 and then re-install 2.2.9

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-derek

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