Installation directory incorrect upon update of installation from beta to 4.31 : Pegasus

The installation is VERY Simple for an upgrade . . .
Here are the steps that I used:

Download the file w32-431.exe from http://www.pmail.com
Double Click the file name w32-431.exe
Hit the button "Setup"
It says it sees an existing install - So I click on button "Update"
(Yes it is the correct directory)
Says "Setup has completed successfully"
Hit button "Exit"
Check the shortcut to make sure it is the same directory - it is.
Click the short cut.
Opens Pegasus Mail program.
Click Help - About - Info
WinPMail version: Version 4.30 public beta 1 (Win32), Jul 17 2005

Upon further experimentation:

If I try new install - to a new directory - then the result is:
WinPMail version: Version 4.31 (Win32), Dec 14 2005

The welcome message says "Welcome to Pegasus Mail v4.2! in the new mail
folder.

After some searching it appears that when you hit update - instead of
installing the programs to \PMAIL\programs where it should go and is
detected, it installs the new programs to \PMAIL

So it updates wrong - but installs correctly - if you use a totally new
directory - such as \temp\pmail.

That would explain why some don't have the version problem - works fine on
a new install.

Tried doing a new install to the \PMAIL\programs directory. It still
puts the new programs in \PMAIL instead of \PMAIL\programs and therefore
still is incorrect. If you try running winpm-32.exe from the \PMAIL
directory it crashes.

If you do a new install to \PMAIL and then run the link it creates to
winpm-32.exe from the desktop icon, it still crashes - so basically the
same thing as installing to \PMAIL\program (its as if it cannot install
to any directory except \PMAIL though it is detecting the installation in
\PMAIL\program - and the \PMAIL\program\winpm-32.exe - the beta version -
is still working with that link as though it is not touched).

So what is the solve to this? Am I installing it wrong? Am I missing
something here?

Do resp. did you have parallel installations of different Pegasus Mail
versions on your system?

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:35:30 GMT, Bob <bob@bob.com> wrote:

>
> The installation is VERY Simple for an upgrade . . .
> Here are the steps that I used:


Michael

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> Do resp. did you have parallel installations of different Pegasus Mail
> versions on your system?
>
No, just one installation. I've been upgrading since . . . well I don't
remember the first version of Pegasus I installed its been so long ago.
I'm thinking the only fix for this problem is to do another clean install
to another directory, and then manually copy all the files to the normal
install directory. Anyone have a file list of the files that actually
change when you do an update?

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 20:21:41 GMT, Bob <bob@bob.com> wrote:

> > Do resp. did you have parallel installations of different Pegasus Mail
> > versions on your system?
> >
> No, just one installation. I've been upgrading since . . . well I don't
> remember the first version of Pegasus I installed its been so long ago.
> I'm thinking the only fix for this problem is to do another clean install
> to another directory, and then manually copy all the files to the normal
> install directory. Anyone have a file list of the files that actually
> change when you do an update?

As we haven't seen anybody else having problems with using the "Update"
button can please give a step by step description of what happened on your
machine? I've already forwarded your previous description to David Harris
but neither he nor I do really understand what actually happens on your
system.


Michael

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