Tracktion has worst installer ever?

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I cannot believe that it is 2026 and the Tracktion Installation Manager won't let me choose WHERE it should place my installation and forces it straight to my C: drive without any choice in the matter.

This is an absolute joke of a manager and I'm already regretting spending time on this.

I'm dead serious here. Can anyone even remotely begin to defend why this installer is so utterly and completely useless? Please, do go on. I cannot fathom why Tracktion would create something as useless as this for their products?

:o :x :roll:

Update: Ok, so now I got the whole "you need to not have this clicked, only then will you be able to choose" thing... but there's no option to uninstall anything anywhere, only a "reinstall" option, wow. And even though I've uninstalled everything manually, even the installer itself and done a clean sweep of everything Tracktion on my computer with cleaner software - the newly downloaded (again) installer still claims that everything is still "installed" even though nothing exists anymore and there's no uninstall, only a reinstall option.

I stand by my opinion, even though I missed that first bit about auto-install to default, this still remains an utter embarrassment as an installer and Tracktion should be ashamed of themselves to use such an incompetently made piece of software. This really is an atrociously bad installer.

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I cant agree more. it cant uninstall any product...

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It's not the greatest, but "doesn't happen to work the way I wish it would" is not the same thing as "utterly and completely useless". I mean, it works for a lot of people. I'm using Windows 10 and I can use the System -> Apps & features to uninstall Waveform.

The thing about their installers that I really hate is that the VSTs go into a Steinberg folder and they also install AAX versions.

The Tracktion Download Manager uses a text file to keep track of what is and isn't installed:
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Tracktion\TracktionDownloads.xml
If you're feeling brave, you can remove things from it.
Surely there must be consensus by now...

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