VP11 Uninstalled Itself???

OldJack wrote on 1/22/2012, 1:17 PM

My computer was NOT running VP11 and was simply at the desktop. A guest in my home logged onto my computer via my home network to transfer a .m4a music file for me to hear on Quicktime player. Vegas completely uninstall VP11. I find this outrageous! What gives?

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Chienworks wrote on 1/22/2012, 1:19 PM

Is your computer still logged in to a guest account, or any account other than the one under which Vegas was installed?

OldJack wrote on 1/22/2012, 1:24 PM

The guest computer only transfer a song and then logged off. I have now reinstalled VP11 and everything is back to normal. I just don't understand why Vegas completely uninstalled. VP11 was not running at the time. My Vegas computer was loged in as Admn.

MUTTLEY wrote on 1/22/2012, 1:55 PM

I suspect gremlins.

- Ray
Underground Planet

Geoff_Wood wrote on 1/22/2012, 1:57 PM

Never heard of anything like that before ! I assume the 'guest' was computer literate enough not to have somehow accidentally uninstalled, say by clicling on an installer link remaining on the desktop. Or a practical-joker or malicious ?

geoff

OldJack wrote on 1/22/2012, 2:06 PM

I was sitting beside and watching the guest and he did nothing regarding VP11. VP11 simply uninstalled completely on its own. I have Norton anti-virus software and my computer is clean. Could it be that VP11 did not want my computer connected by another on my house net?

Geoff_Wood wrote on 1/22/2012, 3:11 PM

No. And copying an m4a file to that computer would not involve Vegas in the process at all, any more that copying a pdf to the pc would cause Word to uninstall.

Even if he copied the file by dragging and dropping onto the target computer, accidentally dropping onto the Vegas desktop icon, that could not have initiated an uninstall (would simply have opened the file in Vegas).

There will be a simple explanation, presumably relating to some action that was done either deliberately or inadvertently. But I can't imagine what !

Suggest you try the same action again yourself - if it does it again then maybe there is some sort of weird bug....

geoff

Former user wrote on 1/22/2012, 3:14 PM

Is it uniinstalled or deleted?
Do you still have the Icons for starting it? Is the program in your Program Files Folder?

Dave T2

OldJack wrote on 1/22/2012, 6:52 PM

Icon on the task-bar deleted and desktop icon even disappeared when I clicked it. Vegas Pro 11 subdirectory under Sony directory was completely deleted. Control Panel did not list the VP11 program only my VP9. The only files left was the .veg files in my video data files and my upgrade/download .exe version files.

Steve Mann wrote on 1/22/2012, 9:43 PM

Sounds to me like the PC is still logged onto the Guest account and Vegas was installed under a different account, probably the admin.

OldJack wrote on 1/23/2012, 11:23 AM

Guest PC logged off after transfer of file. I then discovered VP11 missing and had to reinstall after I rebooted and searched for VP11.