Can't update Kontakt 5.6.0 to 5.6.1 for some reason?!?!

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  1. Bunford

    Bunford Audiosexual

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    Slightly confused trying to install the latest R2R release (5.6.1). When I try to run the Kontakt 5 Setup PC.exe it says it is already installed on my system, but it is not. The version I currently have is 5.6.0, or R2R's 5.6.0.46 to be exact.

    When I try and install this I get a message saying:

    Native Instruments Kontakt 5 Setup Error

    Installation is not possible since the full version of Kontakt 5 is found on this computer. The latest version of Kontakt 5 can load all Kontakt Player libraries. You can update your existing Kontakt 5 full installation by running the latest Kontakt 5 update installer.


    WTF?!?! Does that mean this 5.6.1 is actually using the Kontakt Player installer rather than the full version installer?

    Confused as to what's going on here and how I can update it?!?!

     
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  3. Sonny Crockett

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    That basically happens because Kontakt must be fully uninstalled, and with that I don't mean just folders and files but also deleted from the registry.
    So, to explain it complete, what you have to do is delete the Kontakt folders from these locations:

    C:\Program Files\Native Instruments\
    C:\Program Files\Common Files\Native Instruments
    C:\Program Files (x86\Native Instruments\
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Native Instruments
    C:\ProgramData\Native Instruments\
    C:\Users\PC\Documents\Native Instruments
    C:\Users\PC\AppData\Local\Native Instruments

    If there's any you don't have it's alright too.
    Then to clear the registry (look for Kontakt only too):


    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.NKB
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.NKI
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.NKM
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.NKP
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.NKS
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\NI.Kontakt 5.nki
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\NI.Kontakt 5.nkm
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Native Instruments
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Native Instruments
    HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Native Instruments



    That should do it, it always worked for me.
    Sorry if you're on Mac, don't know how it goes there.
     
  4. dv8r171

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    You should Kontakt Native Instruments and ask for help. :rofl: (See what I did there?)
     
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  5. Bunford

    Bunford Audiosexual

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    But if i totally unintall it, don't i lose all my libraries and then need to re-add them all? Doesn't seem logical for an update install.
     
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    uninstall 5.6 and then install 5.6.1, because 5.6.1 isnt an update!
     
  7. Sonny Crockett

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    I don't know about the library thing honestly, but now that I rember I didn't have to re-add any of the couple ones I had added before, they were there already. And as they said above that is not an update but full installation so keep in mind that too.
     
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