Entrenchment update killed my Sins of a Solar Empire!

I'm seeing the same problem, and it sucks. Might as well be called Microsoftdock!!!

Well, the Sins files are still on the disc. So I assume there is some kind of solution that doesn't involve re-downloading all of Sins.

Any official word on this?

I had the same problem. Impulse allowed me to update Sins but told me I had to uninstall Entrenchment, which caused Sins to be uninstalled. I can reinstall Sins but then Entrenchment (0.92.005) claims it is installed and it needs to be uninstalled again, and the entire process loops itself... First Sins uninstalls, then Impulse moves on to uninstall Entrechment and gets an error msg: "There is an error in XML document (28,8)." What seems to have helped was to 1) ensure all files in Sins directory were deleted 2) restarting between reinstalling 3) clening up registry via Norton WinDoctor before reinstalling and 4) installing Sins through clicking on Install Entrenchment, which caused Entrenchment to be downloaded and preped for installation by Impulse while main Sins was still donwloading. One or more of those steps presumably got rid of the old Entrenchment instalation artifacts. Update: at least, that's what I hoped. I've restarted the comps and now I have something different: Entrenchment is installed, but Sins claims that the main game is not! Aaargh...

Overall, I ended up redownloading and reinstalling Sins 5 times. I hope then when the next expansions comes out, things will go better - I am afraid to think of how messy this may get when Impulse will start playing with more then one expansion... makes me really really not looking forward to helping with another beta, neither.

Further note: I had Sins installed on another drive, now it reinstalls itself to C\Program Files\ giving me no ability to chose where I want it to be installed

You can change the install path in the Impulse settings. However, it will ignore the Impulse settings if another path is already registered for Sins. To change that one you can open the registry and search for Sins, then just move the files to the other drive and change the path in the registry accordingly.

I do not have the time or bandwidth to re-download Sins 4 times or even a single time. I am very disappointed that no StarDock official can give some advice on this
Support please?

I uninstalled entrench and sins, then I deleted every file of sins that I had, then I reinstalled sins and entrench through impulse and I'm fine.

You will need to manually remove the game folder, and run the fix below before you'll be able to re-install.

Go to C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire (or where ever you installed the game) and delete the main Sins folder.

Once you do this, download the file below (follow the link in IE, as other browsers will simply display it as a text file):

http://sd.stardock.com/curthendzell/sins_entrenchment_fix.reg

Save the file to your Desktop and run it from your machine. Then, reboot your PC and go back to Impulse and try installing the base game. Make sure it installs to 1.15 version, test it out before then installing entrenchment.

Wait, there is no way to fix it without re-downloading the whole game? The files are still there, it just has to be possible somehow, right?

And there is no need to ever use the IE. There are tons of other ways to download the reg file