I can't seem to get Forge to install, continually getting 'You must run the version 1.7.2 manually at least once' error when using the windows installer.

 

I have set up my Profile to 1.72, and have opened a game, then exited

 

I have tried using both the forge-1.7.2-10.12.1.1075 and forge-1.7.2-10.12.1.1060 installers with same error popping up.

 

I have deleted my entire instance of .Minecraft from my Appdata/Roaming folder, reinstalled and tried from scratch running 1.72 and still get the "must run the version manually" error.

 

This is driving me bonkers...what am I doing wrong?

It throws that error if it can not find .minecraft/versions/1.7.2/1.7.2.jar

So you need to verify that exists and you're pointing the installer at the correct folder.

Perhaps some screenshots to show us what you're doing may help.

Thanks. It appears to have both the 1.7.2 directory and the jar file inside.

 

I didn't understand what you meant by "pointing the installer". I simply downloaded to desktop and attempted to run, then got the error. Just noticed however, that the installer was trying to run against my user name vs user instance I was on (my son's). I have admin rights, so while on his Windows user login, I had to sign in w/my admid account to allow the installer to run. Noticed that it was pointing to Users/Steve/... instead of Users/Chris/... so I was using the wrong path. DOH!

 

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Appears to have installed fine now!