One of my hard drives has failed and I have been able to reinstall most of my programs on another hard drive, but I have run the uninstaller to get rid of LibreOffice, but it wont work as it can’t find the previous install. I have tried registry cleaners, but it still can’t remove the error of halting when it can’t find the old install, both on uninstall or reinstall.
You don’t say what OS, but we’ll assume a MS Windows load since you are talking “uninstaller”.
What are you trying to retain from the prior installation? If nothing, simply delete the per user configuration folders C:\Users<username>\AppData\LibreOffice
Delete the program files C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 3.6
(C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 3.6 for 64-bit)
Open the registry editor and delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LibreOffice
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\LibreOffice for 64-bit)
as well as delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\The Document Foundation
Close registry editor, and reboot.
Should be clean for an installation with the .MSI Windows installer.
Yes, Windows 7, apologies for lacking information. I will remove the “C:\Users<username>\AppData\LibreOffice” and let you know if it works.
It got nearly through the install then same error again, I will try the next step.
Success! Deleting the first Reg key did the job, the second didn’t exist. I’ve been putting this off for a month, many thanks for your help!
Glad to help, let us know if all is behaving–especially the Java JRE which may need some attention if you’ve moved got both JRE 1.6 and 1.7 present.
I think it’s all fine, migrating all other software to a new drive, or I found some hack to make it work. It was only the LibreOffice installer that was complaining as it couldn’t map the old path to a drive that no longer exists.