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Anonymous
July 16, 2010
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Customised unit file deleted in MC15

  • July 16, 2010
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I have just installed MC15 on my machine. During the installation my version of MC14 was deleted.

The problem is I had customised both the mcdunitsystemsi.mpl file in the mpl folder and the unit-system-SI.xml file in the units folder. When MC14 was unistalled both of these files were deleted.

I am now going to have to spend some considerable time replacing these files.

Why does the MC15 installer delete files that have been modified. Instructions for changing these files has been supplied in the MatCAD help, so why were they not left in situ the same as the additional files and folders I had added to the Hanbook folder?

7 replies

RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
July 16, 2010

You don't back up your PC?

Anonymous
July 16, 2010

I do, but that is not the point. No software installer should be so badly written that it cannot detect when a file has been changed.

IRstuff1-Visitor
1-Visitor
July 16, 2010

Ian Fraser wrote:

I do, but that is not the point. No software installer should be so badly written that it cannot detect when a file has been changed.

Really? But then again, what can we say about MS Office when it overwrites my templates on a re-install?

jeanGiraud1-Visitor
1-Visitor
July 16, 2010

Never install personal items in an application install CD. If you had extracted your personalized unit system, you could then re-install by just pasting the corresponding file in the install CD directory.

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