After installing SketchUp Pro 2022, it’s not possible to uninstall SketchUp Pro 2021. When following the uninstall instructions, an error appears. Uninstalling SketchUp | SketchUp Help A later version of 'SketchUp Pro 2021' is already installed on this machine. The setup cannot continue. [image…

When you originally installed 2021, and when you recently installed 2022 did you use the correct method? That being selecting the installer .exe and right clicking and choosing Run as Administrator. This is different to being signed in as an admin. If you didn’t install this way you may be able to …

Just as an aside: Unless you are very short of disk space, there is no hurry to uninstall version 2021. I have more than one older version left on my machine.

Nobody? I’d really like to be able to uninstall SketchUp 2021. There’s no reason to have 2 versions installed, and I have limited SSD storage space.

Don’t worry, I know the answer… There is a defect in the 2021 installer, where instead of checking to see if a later 2021.x is installed, it mistakingly checks for anything that is later than 2021.0. So, 2022.0 is seen by the 2021 installer as being a later version of 2021, and not an entire new ve…

Thank you for confirming that this is a bug in the installer. I followed your workaround to uninstall 2021.

[image] colin: Don’t worry, I know the answer… Isn’t that the same as I suggested.

It is quite similar to your second suggestion, along with an explanation. It took another read to see that you had made two suggestions.

I didn’t need you to give me the tick, I was just curious if there was something different to what I had said.

Is this for real? At times like these I am starting to miss 3dsmax.

Just leaving this here for people that might come across the issue as I’ve just had to solve this issue for a deployment that wanted to remove the others. Run/Deploy the 2021 installer with the arguments -remove -silent at the end e.g. SketchUpPro-2021-1-332-116.exe -remove -silent You can also …

I modified the registry per your instructions and still had the same result. I currently have 2023 Pro installed, and have no need/desire to keep 2021. I did successfully uninstall 2022 after the 2021 fail, and figured this would solve the problem, but it did not. I have no confidence in uninstalli…

Unable to uninstall SketchUp Pro 2021 after 2022 install

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Elmtec-Adam May 17, 2023, 8:43pm 13

This is a more streamlined version of how to force uninstall it here

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