You can uninstall it from SDC, just select it and then click the uninstall button at the bottom.  You should make sure to check the option to clear save games when you uninstall.

Well, given the fact that lots of thing will have changed , you may expect that the files that haven't been modified between Beta 5 and the release may not be large files or very numerous.

So if you are bound to download nearly everything, doing a clean install could be nice

BTW, that would prevent any strangeness on files that may have been modified in the same timeframe for the latest updates of beta 5 and the various gamma releases.

Thanks PP, that's what I thought as well. I won't take the risk and download the whole thing anew. It can't hurt to keep the Beta archived though...

That no longer works on many systems because of an error in the installation routine. The. 016 beta screwed my installation royally. I can't uninstall and it doesn't show that it is installed and bombs out on extraction at thumbs_0 file not found.

Took me 3 times before I was able to get the beta to fully extract on my desktop.

Good luck,
Suralle

You don't have to believe me. Let me tell you something one of my old Commanding Officers told the Executive Officer one day.

CO: ", I really don't give a shit whether you like it or not. I am telling you how it was done, how were going to do it and guess what?"

X0: "Yes, Cap'n?"

CO: "I have already made captain, I am and have already commanded a nuclear power attack submarine, so in this case and in the future I believe I am immeniently more qualified to make the decisions around here."

Now your asking yourself, what does this have to do with anything. Well what I took away from the exchange was this:

I don't care whether you believe me. Your not hurting my feelings one way or the other. Why would I bother to lie to you, I don't know you and if you died tomorrow I wouldn't lose a nights sleep.

However, another thing I believe in is your right to state that you do NOT believe me, and I WILL DEFEND YOUR RIGHT TO STATE THAT YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME UNTIL THEY PRY MY .45 CALIBER FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS.

W/R
Suralle Straykat
Kat Lord at Large

Just to add fuel to the fire here is the end report I get

-- [Installation] ---------------------------------------------------
Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\gc2\production\gc2_Multimedia.xml 1
Load: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\gc2\production\gc2_Multimedia.xml 1
Download: C:\Downloads\gc2_Multimedia.sdc 0 (attempt: 1, The Url is invalid, code: -14)
Download: C:\Downloads\gc2_Multimedia.sdc 0 (attempt: 2, The Url is invalid, code: -14)
Download: C:\Downloads\gc2_Multimedia.sdc 0 (attempt: 3, The Url is invalid, code: -14)
Result: Installation failed (0)

W/R
Suralle