OTOH, if "preferences" are left around from 0.53 to 0.54 that could potentially cause trouble if something that was appropriate for 0.53 somehow crashes 0.54
"Wrong" preferences should never crash Pd in the first place... It would be really great if Oliver would somehow manage to recreate the settings that led to the crash.
Christof
On 22.06.2023 21:17, Miller Puckette wrote:
On 6/22/23 11:50, Lucas Cordiviola wrote:
On 22/06/2023 15:41, oliver wrote:
It seems to not overwrite the old installation completely, or so it seems to me.
I think you runned the *new* installer whithout a prior uninstall (and you overwrited files).
The new installer will (in the future) warn you and ask you to uninstall first. but this warning is not happening if you have Pd < 0.54 installed.
I got a different ride... installing 0.54 on top of 0.53 the installer did give me the option to erase the old one. I tried it both with and without the "uninstall" option and had no trouble either way. Since the new one will overwrite any files it needs, it shouldn't be strictly necessary to uninstall 0.53 files that got renamed or removed in 0.54 - they should just hang around but not do anything. OTOH, if "preferences" are left around from 0.53 to 0.54 that could potentially cause trouble if something that was appropriate for 0.53 somehow crashes 0.54, which is what I think Oliver saw. If that's true, the only way to recreate Oliver's crash would be to re-establish the preferences he had in 0.53 and then install 0.54 on top of it without "uninstalling".
Or perhaps something totally different from that was going wrong...?
cheers
Miller
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