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Old 01-09-2019, 01:49 PM   #1
bookishh
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MSI required for uninstall of previous version of Calibre?

Hello,

First of all, thanks for providing the software. Looks very well, works great, admirable.

I will donate in any case, as soon as I finish writing this post. But before I do that, I also wish to register a complaint about this parrot. It's stone dead.

In other words, Calibre appears to be one of those programs, which require original installation exe to uninstall old versions.

Please, please, please, I beg you to see your way to fixing this. It is ugly as hell; no sane person wishes to clutter their harddrive with installation media for programs downloaded from the net.

Since my last use of Calibre was quite some time ago, I even am not sure, if I *can* redownload original installation exe for that version (3.11.1 64bit WIndows). It is a problem not unique to Calibre, but is definitely annoying as hell.

To quote Stack Overflow on this problem (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ut-an-msi-file) :

"It is not normal or standard MSI behavior to ask for the original source media - it indicates a badly designed MSI package. If you experience this with a vendor MSI it is highly recommended that you report the problem to their support team."

Cheers and best regards,
~G
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