Marcin Floryan wrote:
It may just be my system but I have just downloaded the installer and run it It did notice the previous version of Inkscape installed (0.45+0.46pre0) but it failed to find the uninstall.log and stuff and failed to uninstall the previous version automatically hence advised to simply clear the directory. I know it is fine, but some users may find it confusing. In particular since ale the uninstaller files where there and running uninstall by hand worked OK.
I had the same problem when I wanted to quickly try a windows release on my sister's laptop (since I don't run windows :-P). I seem to remember that the error message about the missing uninstall file mentioned a slightly different name than the existing file. Maybe this is what causes the issue.
But there was a second problem. I had installed Inkscape in C:\Programme\ instead of C:\Program Files\ (i.e., I had used the German name of the folder). Then wen I tried to do a manual uninstallation by double clicking on uninstall.exe, Inkscape reported that it had successfully removed all the files, but it tried to remove them from C:\Program Files, not from the folder where Inkscape was really installed. So after the uninstall process, the old installation was still there.
HTH, Max