New answer for FAQ "Why I can't upload my programs to the Arduino board?"

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

What change would like to see?

In the FAQs on http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/troubleshooting#toc1 please add 
this answer as well: "When different versions of Arduino IDE have been 
installed. Try to remove preferences.txt and restart the IDE."

Why?

Because different versions of the Arduino IDE mix up the preferences.txt

Would this cause any incompatibilities with previous versions?  If so, how
can these be mitigated?

There could be a check while the installation...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pow...@gmx.de on 2 Nov 2012 at 11:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

IDE was updated to have specific preferences for each version. See here for 
more  : https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/issues/1167

Original comment by s.fitzge...@arduino.cc on 5 Nov 2013 at 6:54

Changed state: Fixed

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

... but could be still helpful in the docs.

Original comment by pow...@gmx.de on 5 Nov 2013 at 9:25

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