Should I remove older versions of LR??

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In doing some HD clean up I was wondering if I should remove older versions of LR. I have LR1.3, LR1.4 and LR2beta on my HD. I don't want to mess any thing up so I thought I would ask here first. Thanks for any thoughts you could pass my way!
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They won't hurt anything if you leave them, other than chewing up disk space.
If you're positive you have all of your old catalogs upgraded to 2.5, you can also safely remove them, via the Windows Add/Remove Software control panel applet. That process should leave the associated respective catalogs, preferences, presets and templates intact. You'll have to remove those manually. Depending on your paranoia level, back those up first, if you like.

BTW, welcome to the forums.
 
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Thanks for the fast reply and welcome, Brad! Storage space is not critical at this point but thinking of the future. I was directed in this direction from Geoff (Kiwi Geoff) over at Nikon Cafe. A very helpful fellow with many good things said about the LR forums. I'm trying to narrow down my software choices for my photos and have decided that LR is one that I will continue to use as my default.
Thanks again, Bill
 
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Gidday Bill, I'm not here as much now with my moderator roles elsewhere!! It's a nice friendly bunch here too! :D
Brad is a real gentleman and nearly always (that's one up on my sometimes!!) has great advice!! :) I would back up Brad by saying why would you keep older versions? Personally I'd get rid all except the current.
 
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Welcome aboard.

And worst case scenario, if the uninstall deleted any needed program files, reinstalling the latest version would sort it. Delete away!
 
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