It is not clear whether the previous beta installation was based around the initial GTK Ide one (zip file of j7w folder) or the jhs installer that installs as described in my previous post to you.
My advice, to bypass any miscommunications/misunderstandings of your current setup, would be to start fresh and do a standard install using the latest beta installer. The only reason I can see for unzipping rather than installing would be if your machine's security didn't let you run unknown installers. > From: Murray Eisenberg > Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 2010 10:33 > > In an earlier post, I had asked whether I could install over an > existing > beta (under Windows) and a user said I could. > > So I began doing so and was faced with the choice of type of > installation Standard, System, or Custom. But I didn't know what sort > of > installation I currently had. > > So I posted again, asking how I tell. > > A user replied that I should just unzip the installer into the folder > of > the older beta version. > > I tried to run WinZip on the installer and was told it wasn't a valid > .zip file. > > So I'm sort of stymied. > > > On 11/9/2010 1:00 PM, Eric Iverson wrote: > > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:00:35 -0500 > From: Eric Iverson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Jbeta] Beta Digest, Vol 51, Issue 13 > To: Beta forum <[email protected]> > > I've lost track of this discussion. But off hand I can't think of any > valid reason for unzipping an installer instead of just installing. > Unless one had serious security concerns. > > > > > Message: 4 > > Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:56:22 -0500 > > From: Murray Eisenberg<[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Jbeta] Beta Digest, Vol 51, Issue 13 > > To: [email protected] > > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > [Once again when I tried to reply, quoting the entire beta digest > > message (and then intended to cut out everything irrlevant), > Thunderbird > > truncated it before the message at issue.] > > > > I cannot open j701abeta_win.exe as a zip file to unzip it: WinZip > says > > it's a corrupted zip file and only offers to execute it. > > > > On 11/9/2010 7:21 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > From: bill lam<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Jbeta] how > determine > > type of installation for beta upgrade? To: [email protected] > > Message-ID:<[email protected]> Content-Type: > text/plain; > > charset=utf-8 You can find in which folder did you last install , and > > then unzip (not execute) the jbeta installer to that folder. ???, 08 > ??? > > 2010, Murray Eisenberg ?????(?): > > > > I was beginning to install the latest jbeta executable under > Windows > > > > when it asked me what type -- Standard, System, or Custom. > > > > > > > > Since I already have a j701 beta installed and -- in the > absence of > > > > having seen a response to an earlier post here about > installing an > > > > upgrade -- I was going to install over the earlier one. But > how do I > > > > determine which kind of installation I did for the previous > beta? > > > > > > -- > Murray Eisenberg [email protected] > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
