Uninstall Kontakt (6) due to Kontakt 7

superwotan
superwotan Member Posts: 24 Member
edited October 2024 in Kontakt

Hi,

I was wondering what to do with Kontakt (6) after the installation of Kontakt 7. I have no clue how to uninstall Kontakt. In NA it is still shown with the "repair" option and orange triangle although I tried to delete all Kontakt files and folders.

Thanks for any help in advance.


I am using Win11 btw.

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  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Customer Care Posts: 13,187 mod
    Answer ✓

    @DeltaJockey if I migrate all my existing DAW projects that use Kontakt 6 with their loaded instruments and re-save them to projects with those instruments in Kontakt 7,

    is there any need for keeping Kontakt 6 installed? I assume K7 is a superset of previous versions?

    If you do it like that, then you don't need Kontakt 6 on your system.

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  • MyStudioOne
    MyStudioOne Member Posts: 283 Pro

    You need to uninstall it in Windows Apps>Installed apps

    As you can see below, you can see the version you want to delete. Just click the ... button on the right and that is it!

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  • superwotan
    superwotan Member Posts: 24 Member

    Hi there and many thanks for your help.

    It was kind of strange because firstly I couldn't find Kontakt in the Win app list as I already tried to remove it so it did no longer appear there although still in NA. So I did use the repair function in NA first so Kontakt appeared again in the Win app list. I uninstalled and finally it is shown in NA as "not installed".


    Thank you very much again, that was very helpful.

  • dhillf2w
    dhillf2w Member Posts: 7 Member

    Any Suggestions for Mac Users? I've deleted Kontakt 6 from Applications/Native Instruments but it remains in Native Access with an exclamation point and a suggestion to repair also. It would be nice is Native Access had an option to uninstall.

  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Customer Care Posts: 13,187 mod
    edited November 2022

    Hey all, before uninstalling Kontakt 6, please note that Kontakt 7 will not open automatically in your old projects, they will still need Kontakt 6 to load the libraries in these projects.

    Here is how to uninstall on a mac: How to Uninstall Native Instruments Software from a Mac Computer

  • DeltaJockey
    DeltaJockey Member Posts: 18 Member


    Hey guys,

    just confirming my understanding of what I think is the case, if I migrate all my existing DAW projects that use Kontakt 6 with their loaded instruments and re-save them to projects with those instruments in Kontakt 7,

    is there any need for keeping Kontakt 6 installed? I assume K7 is a superset of previous versions?

    I like to de-clutter when I have the opportunity :)

    I see many are uninstalling K6, so guess this is the case.

  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Customer Care Posts: 13,187 mod
    Answer ✓

    @DeltaJockey if I migrate all my existing DAW projects that use Kontakt 6 with their loaded instruments and re-save them to projects with those instruments in Kontakt 7,

    is there any need for keeping Kontakt 6 installed? I assume K7 is a superset of previous versions?

    If you do it like that, then you don't need Kontakt 6 on your system.

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