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Title: removal of previous IM versions AFTER installation of IM 2020
Post by: danz17 on October 16, 2020, 06:54:29 PM
On Sept 1 I downloads the then latest version of IM 2020, bout only installed it today (Oct 16) without having first removed earlier versions. Should I now remove the earlier versions prior to installaing the latest upgrade?
Thanks ini advance for comments on my issue.
danz17
Title: Re: removal of previous IM versions AFTER installation of IM 2020
Post by: Mario on October 16, 2020, 08:32:22 PM
All updates automatically detect and 'replace' previous installations. Settings and databases are automatically migrated, as needed.
No manual user action required.

Under very rare circumstances (I think, switching from IMatch 3 to 5.x back in the day) or when changing the installer technology, IMatch may require a manual uninstallation of the previous version. But when this is the case I make it very explicit in the https://www.photools.com/release-notes/.