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Asked: 2026-05-12T18:39:59+00:00

I guess I didn’t upgrade the right way, but for a while I was

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I guess I didn’t upgrade the right way, but for a while I was running two versions of Perl concurrently. Now I just have one, but every time I start PPM it recreates the Perl folder of one of the old locations. I’ve set the active one to be the current Perl folder, but because the old one is still present on the list (displayed when I go Edit->Preferences), it creates it every time. How do I get it to stop doing that? I looked through the Windows Registry but I don’t think that’s where the areas are tracked.

This is ActiveState Perl 5.10.1 build 1006 on Windows Server 2003.

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    Replace all references throughout .packlists (and possibly all other files under the Perl path as well), then delete the .db files in etc/ and site/etc, then run ppm to let it re-build the database based on the updated packlists.

    So the answer is some combination of Config.pm, lib\Config_heavy.pl, lib\CORE\config.h, possibly other files, the .dbs, and the .packlists.

    Although, who’s to say if I had left the Windows Registry entries there too it wouldn’t’ve found them?

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