Fed up with trying to troubleshoot app-launching crash (worked fine then just took a dump and crashed whenever I tried to load it). Uninstall app doesn’t seem very rugged; it throws this error: [image] It says that uninstall will continue, but it does not (tries to roll back). Repair doesn’t …

[image] MCEBuddy FAQ - Install, Uninstall and Start Up Issues Guides and Solutions Sometimes MCEBuddy will run into various issues while installing, uninstalling or starting the application. Listed below are some of the common error messages and resolution steps. Please ma…

Yeah, those are the kinds of steps (and robust logic) that should be built into the uninstaller app… especially for a paid app. Still concerned about the original issue: the app was working fine, then just started to crash on launch (only error thrown was in Event Viewer, which shows that the actu…

This happens when your file system gets corrupted. MCEBuddy has been hardened over the years and handles pretty much any exception but if the files are corrupted it can’t do anything, that’s when the FAQ’s come into play. If things are running fine and suddenly stop, something changed and most ofte…

Haven’t seen corruption on a journaling NTFS file system for years now. Chkdsk confirmed. Plus, I’m sure that corruption is only affecting the last piece of software that was installed. Veeerrrry coincidental. My hunch is that it’s MCEBuddy having a problem reading its own .conf file, after I di…

UPDATE: re-ran installer after last remove failure. This time, selected repair. Voila. Now it works. How nice. Super confident in app state now. [image] Next Steps: I backed up old .conf file, so will see if that’s what was causing the app to initially crash. Will be sure to report back, b…

App Crashing and Can't Uninstall!

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Goose (Goose) April 1, 2019, 11:59pm 2

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