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Note: If Notes is currently installed, the default path is the current Notes installation path. When you install Notes single user on a system on which Notes 6.5 or 7.x is already installed, the traditional Notes portion of the product is upgraded and installed to the same directory in which the existing Notes install binaries currently reside, for example C:\IBM\Notes. The Notes data directory is assumed to be the directory where the existing Notes install data files exist, for example C:\IBM\Notes\data. Additional IBM Lotus® Expeditor framework files are installed to a \framework subdirectory, for example C:\IBM\Notes\framework.
Table 1. Default and Suggested Windows Single-user Directories for Notes Install
Table 2. Default and Suggested Windows XP Multi-user Directories for Notes Install
Table 3. Default and Suggested Windows Vista Multi-user Directories for Notes install
Note: On a Windows system in which an existing Notes installation is detected (6.5.x, 7x, or 8.x), the existing installation directories will be reused.
Table 4. Default and Suggested 64-bit Windows 7 and 8 Directories for Notes Install
Note: As a 32-bt application, Notes must be installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\... or another directory name such as C:\IBM\Notes; it cannot be installed to C:\Program Files. This is a requirement of the 64-bit Windows 7 and 8 operating systems. Instead of trying to install to C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes and C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes\data, install to C:\IBM\Notes and C:\IBM\Notes\data (not placing it in any particular Program directory). All files will install correctly to this Notes folder.
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