16.4 - Repeated Crash if single attempt made to run without .Net 4.8.1 about optimizer HOT 3 CLOSED

You should have kept the logs before deleting the folder. It would help.

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That may be true, but until i submitted the bug which has the prompt to attach and where the logs were, i didn't know specific logs existed or where they were. Chicken - egg. Even the closed issue in which I saw the 'delete the entire folder' suggestion existed didn't have logs location, just a continued developer asking for them without telling the submitter where they were/how to get that info.
I'm presume you as a helper/developer might be able to replicate the issue by uninstalling .Net - deleting the optimizer programdata folder, then performing my steps as listed in bug report.
I'm moving on - i'm mid-rebuild of a home prod system and have hours of work remaining.

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@JamminR Thing is the .NET apps do not tell you that the framework is missing from the system when running them, nor produce any detailed error message, because it can't be run in the first place. So yeah...

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