Upgrade Web Appbuilder-Dev

[LeroyChristophersen]

The documentation on this page has been and is incorrect and mis-leading. (Upgrade apps—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Developer Edition) | ArcGIS for Developers ) When the downloaded file is extracted, the new web appbuilder is placed inside a folder called WebAppBuilderForArcGIS.  Therefore to upgrade previous version Apps, the typical path will include this folder. ex: C:\arcgis-web-appbuilder-1.0\webappbuilderforarcgis

[cpmgisuser]

BUT how do you switch to the new version of WABD?
The old version is registered with Portal and the folder is locked on the machine?

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

GIS User‌,

   Not sure what you are talking about, registering WABD with Portal Does not Lock any folder.

[cpmgisuser]

Hi Robert, thanks for your comment.

Was a little frustrated at time of my post and was fixated on a running service looking for node-js!
The service running was actually "ArcgisWebAppBuilder", when I stopped the service I removed the locks on the active folder. This allowed me to rename and replace with new v2.18 WABD.

All good now.