SketchUp2014 PC (ProEvaluation) was installed, however, the .msi file was deleted and now we cannot uninstall. When Control Panel → Add/Remove Program → right click on SketchUp 2014 to Uninstall or Repair is selected, error message Windows Installer pop-up appears “The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable” and asks to point to SketchUp2014.msi. This file is no longer available for download from sketchup.com web site. What’s available from Download All | SketchUp is “SketchUpPro-2014-1-1282-61130-en.msi” which does not work. Error message is “The file XXXX\SketchUpPro-2014-1-1282-61130-en.msi is not a valid installation package for the product SketchUp 2014. Try to find the installation package ‘SketchUp2014.msi’ in a folder from which you can install SketchUp 2014.”.
It is NOT an MSI (Microsoft Installer Package.) It is a self-extracting executable installer archive. You cannot just change the file extension from EXE to MSI. (Change it back to EXE.)
The easiest thing to do is re-install SketchUp 2014, then uninstall it.
If you must do it manually …
View the EXE archive with an archive utility like WinZip or 7Zip.
Copy the “SketchUp2014.msi” to your "%LocalAppData%/Temp/sketchup_install" folder.
First of all, your suggestion to re-install SketchUp2014 fails. It tries to remove the old version first, which fails since it doesn’t have the correct SketchUp2014.msi.
I do not have the matching SketchUp2014.msi for my current installed version. Where can I get it?
If I use cmd line to force install of the SketchUpPro-2014-1-1282-61130-en.msi version without removing the previous version, then Windows keeps the older 14.0.4900 version. However, when I run it, it shows 14.1.1282 for both installs. Looks like my registry got corrupted.