# Install issue - Adabas installation or demo database found

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/install-issue-adabas-installation-or-demo-database-found/94310>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, NaturalONE, Adabas-Natural-Community-Edition\
**Created:** [August 7, 2010, 12:23am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/install-issue-adabas-installation-or-demo-database-found/94310 "2010-08-07T00:23:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Belinda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Belinda](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Belinda)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 12:23am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/install-issue-adabas-installation-or-demo-database-found/94310/1 "2010-08-07T00:23:07Z")

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I want to install NaturalONE CE but I am getting the “Adabas found” message.

I use to have Adabas Manager and all it’s components on my PC but I un-installed them and rebooted. How do I find the Adabas installation or demo database referred to so I can remove it before continuing with a fresh installation of NaturalONE?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![anon29934956](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@anon29934956](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/anon29934956)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/install-issue-adabas-installation-or-demo-database-found/94310/2 "2010-08-09T18:32:29Z")

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The NaturalONE Community Edition will not install when either Adabas is installed or a Adabas data base can be found on the computer. Please check whether the example data base is still installed on your system. Please look into:

C:\ProgramData\Software AG\Adabas\db012\ASSO1.012

If you cannot locate the example DB in the path above search for:

ASSO\*.\* on your system.

You need to backup the files and delete then.

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**Author:** ![Belinda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Belinda](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Belinda)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/install-issue-adabas-installation-or-demo-database-found/94310/3 "2010-08-09T23:54:57Z")

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I did find asso\*.\* in an unzipped folder on my C: drive which I then deleted BUT I am still getting the same message…

Any other ideas?

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**Author:** ![Belinda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Belinda](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Belinda)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/install-issue-adabas-installation-or-demo-database-found/94310/4 "2010-08-11T19:27:38Z")

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Ok, it’s fixed.

For anyone who is interested, there were some registry entries not cleaned up by the uninstall process. I deleted everything in the SoftwareAG folder.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/install-issue-adabas-installation-or-demo-database-found/94310/5 "2021-04-02T14:58:52Z")

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