Bug #37694 Installer always uses default folder instead of already installed.
Submitted: 27 Jun 2008 14:29 Modified: 12 Jan 2009 13:54
Reporter: Klim Mad Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.0.14 - 5.0.23 OS:Windows (SP2)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: installer, target folder

[27 Jun 2008 14:29] Klim Mad
Description:
Installer always uses default folder "Program files\MySQL\..." instead of folder with already installed Workbench.

How to repeat:
Run installer on a system where previous version already installed in custom path.

Suggested fix:
Use path where Workbench was installed early instead of default.
[12 Jan 2009 13:54] Susanne Ebrecht
Many thanks for writing a feature request. We will discuss this.
[22 Dec 2009 12:24] Dieter Dasberg
On a system, where the default folder is NOT "c:\progam files\" (e.g. on Windows XP - german version - it is "c:\programme\") a new server instance could not be created, because the workbench always wanted to use the default path e.g "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\" instead of "C:\Programme\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\".