Failed to Install FBX Review

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Failed to Install FBX Review

Anonymous
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When installing FBX Review on my Windows 8.1 x64 OS I get the error "Autodesk FBX Review could not be installed because a package with the same version number is already installed. Please remove the existing installation using Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel and run setup again".

 

I believe the error is misleading. Admittedly I had FBX review installed once, but I uninstalled it. Now I can't install it again it seems.. Any help?

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regalir
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I get the same error when I try to install on Windows 10 and there is already an installation of the FbxReview but as soon I properly uninstalled the previous installation, installing it again worked flawlessly. Maybe your last uninstall did not properly completed and you still have "left overs" in the registry?

 

You can try to go in the registry editor and manually remove everything related to FbxReview

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My mistake - hit the wrong topic - was replying to "Can't find FWB Review to download" - and I didn't see how to delete my response. 

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Just to update my own question for future readers. 

After more generic Web searching, I found it on the Microsoft Store, and (after logging into my Microsoft Acct), it installed a 12.7Mb program as a Windows 10 App (on my Win10 PC).  It seems to work fine (or rather, as advertised) as a Win10 app. It will open 3DS files (which is what I needed), and let you see them.  Even though my 3DS files were created in 3D Studio Max (2020, I think), when I opened them, they appeared to be empty, but something about their distance from the original meant that they were a long, long way off in the distance, and will a little playing around, I was able to get them to come into view. If you know the FBX Review commands, then you probably won't have the same problems I did. I also couldn't select individual items in the module to change color or make translucent. 

The short of it is, FBX Review is available at the Microsoft store (at least as of 2/3/2021), and it will open and let you see (if you know how) 3DS files.

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