Could Not Upgrade From 6.0 To 6.1 By Running The New .msi

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kengrubb
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Could Not Upgrade From 6.0 To 6.1 By Running The New .msi

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Because I am the champion of TP in my office, I upgrade to the latest greatest and make myself the guinea pig.

I was able to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1, but not by downloading and running the new .msi file.

I extracted the 6.1 .msi to the location where I had the 6.0 .msi, and then went through Control Panel, Add/Remove, and did a Repair of TP. That upgraded me to 6.1

Now when I run the 6.1 .msi file, it will run and offer up Modify, Repair, Remove. However, when I had 6.0, the 6.1 .msi would not run.

WinXP SP3
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Re: Could Not Upgrade From 6.0 To 6.1 By Running The New .ms

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May be some error in MSI packaging config or some dificulties to implement msi update?

Workaround:

uninstall

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MsiExec.exe /X{3F04067F-0DA5-4F48-9A89-6FCFD2A9E040} /qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress
and install new one msi:

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msiexec  /norestart /passive /quiet  /i "textpad 6.msi"
It keeps config and license untouched...

kengrubb wrote:Because I am the champion of TP in my office, I upgrade to the latest greatest and make myself the guinea pig.

I was able to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1, but not by downloading and running the new .msi file.

I extracted the 6.1 .msi to the location where I had the 6.0 .msi, and then went through Control Panel, Add/Remove, and did a Repair of TP. That upgraded me to 6.1

Now when I run the 6.1 .msi file, it will run and offer up Modify, Repair, Remove. However, when I had 6.0, the 6.1 .msi would not run.

WinXP SP3
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John Wingfield

Same issue here

Post by John Wingfield »

Your workaround worked perfectly and upgraded without losing anything. Thanks a lot!!
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Post by kengrubb »

hladikz,

Great info. Much appreciated.
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Quatrix
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Post by Quatrix »

Isn't that the same as uninstalling from Add/Remove (which is what the error message instructs you to do anyway)?
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hladikz
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Post by hladikz »

Sure it is. But you save bunch of keyborad presses.
For company wide upgrade it is reasonable time saver...

There are lot of unattended install specialized sites where you can find info about install/unistall automation. Some are quite tricky, Textpad is clear...

Quatrix wrote:Isn't that the same as uninstalling from Add/Remove (which is what the error message instructs you to do anyway)?
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