I just updated an XP SP2 Educational installation and it was seamless. No restart required, projects intact and compiling, etc. Impressive really. Sorry you had a bad experience.
Ben --- In [email protected], "phillips1021" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > NO JOY in installing the Flex 2.01 update. > > I TRIED installing the Flex 2.01 update. My configuration is Windows > XP SP2 and I was running Flex Builder 2.0 (Educational Version). I > downloaded the Windows update from here: > http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/2/install.html > (144 MB download). > > After the download completed, I ran the downloaded file (named > flexbuilder2_201updater.exe) and went through the process of > installing FlexBuilder 2.01. The installer needed to restart my > computer before completing the process. After my computer restarted, > I expected to see the installer tell me it was finished. But I never > got any more messages from the installer. > > So, after waiting a few minutes, I ran Flex Builder. Still said 2.0 > on the splash screen. I went to Help - Product Details and then > clicked on Feature Details and saw that my Flex Builder 2 Core is > 2.0.143459 and so is my Flex Builder 2 Standalone. > > However, when I try to open one of my Flex projects I get an error > message!!! The MXML editor is not available!!! > > So I closed Flex Builder and ran the download again. Only now I get > the message that an existing Flex Builder installation was not found > and the installer will not run!!! > > I'm now going to try reinstalling the original software!!! I knew I > should NOT have tried to do this on a Friday afternoon. > > Anyone else have a problem or success in installing the update? >

