[GNC] ANNOUNCE: (Re) GnuCash 5.14 Released

[Christopher Treen]

Windows 10 - All the updates.

I had no problems with installs/upgrades until v5.12, so I stayed at 
v5.11 for a while... Joined this mailing list and got my answers.

Yesterday I upgraded to v5.14 and had the same pop-up about missing 
files, blah, blah.

Deleted the offending directory at C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash

All subfolders were empty, except some .dlls which hadn't been deleted 
automatically [I think they were in bin].

Re-installed 5.14 and working fine.

Thank you for the tips.

Chris



On 23-Dec-2025 14:56, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op dinsdag 23 december 2025 12:27:34 Midden-Europese standaardtijd schreef Ian Keiller
> via gnucash-user:
>> Given the installer detects and then uninstalls earlier versions of
>> GnuCash, shouldn't it be fixed so that all the necessary files are
>> deleted? It seems that if to avoid these bugs a manual uninstall plus
>> installation folder deletion is required, then it's not working.
>
> In theory yes, having the installer uninstall an earlier version should be sufficient. There
> are some odd cases though where the installer doesn't uninstall *all* files and hence
> older files remain in place.
>
>
> I have never been able to figure out what were the conditions for this to happen. I only
> have a few clues:
>
>
> * If a file was altered since the installation, it will not always be uninstalled
> * If the file is still open (for example because gnucash is still running) it won't be
> uninstalled.
>
>
> So perhaps one of these was at play ?
>
>
> Note that not everyone updating gnucash on Windows runs into this, so there are
> certainly cases where the installer properly does what it should.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Geert
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