Announcement: GnuCash 2.6.15 Released

[John Ralls]

> On Mar 27, 2017, at 3:14 PM, Dick Courter <genetechs at aaahawk.com> wrote:
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> Just downloaded the corrected 2.6.6.16-1.setup.exe as you instructed below. I have administrator capabilities. I was not asked this time if I agreed to delete anything.
> I still get the same error message mentioned in my original inquiry unassumingly as a result of what happened with the original 2.6.6.16 setup. What happens if I try clicking on ignore? I would like to clean the installation up without having potential lingering errors present. 
> GnuCash is completely down until this problem is solved since the upgraded version will not install. Guess I should not have tried to upgrade so soon.
> Dick C
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Well, it's not the GnuCash installer, that's known to work.There's apparently a file with a permission problem and you're going to have to hunt it down and remove it. All of GnuCash's program files are in %SYSTEMDIR%\Program Files (x86)\gnucash, so simply deleting that directory *should* do it. If you can't do it from Windows Explorer you might try running Power Shell "as an administrator", which gives you even more elevated privileges.

If it still fails, try moving aside the %USERPROFILE%\.gnucash directory. You don't want to delete it, it has some of your settings in it. If it still doesn't work go hunting for a stray registry key.

Regards,
John Ralls
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> On 3/27/2017 12:45 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Mar 27, 2017, at 10:42 AM, Dick Courter <genetechs at aaahawk.com> <mailto:genetechs at aaahawk.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> I just downloaded setup before I received this notice. Upon activating setup, I was asked if I wanted to delete old version. Answered yes.Then upon clicking to install I get the following message. "An error occurred . While trying to replace the existing file: Delete file flailed; code 5. Access Denied"   Clicking on retry also produced the same error message and put me into a loop.
>>> 
>>> Now what? I am assuming most of the old program has been deleted as no longer is there a shortcut icon on desktop. And, I do not find a way in the file folder to activate the old version.
>>> 
>> First, download gnucash-2.6.16-1.setup.exe, as gnucash-2.6.16.setup.exe had a (much discussed already in this thread) dll dependency error.
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>> Next, make sure that you're logged in as an administrator so that you'll have the requisite permissions to delete all of the old version's registry entries and run the new installer.
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>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
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