Would going back to 0.93 cause issues if the wallet was created with 0.96?

With 0.96.3, Armory won't even load.

All I get is the ArmoryDB.exe has stopped working popup.

Not sure if this is what you mean but you can generate a watching-online wallet from Armory on the offline machine (cold storage) and import that into Armory on an online machine.  You can see the balances but cannot spend from this online Armory.

Originally on a Linux box but couldn't get it to work after a few weeks of fiddling around. Now on a windows box.

Bitcoin Core up-to-date.
New install of Armory 96

Armory remains at 'Preparing Database' and remains offline.
In the background there's a popup saying 'ArmoryDB.exe has stopped working'

Here's my log file
https://pastebin.com/zEfQvSph


Any suggestions?

Update: Got it to work

-the 0.96.1 Deb package failed to install so did it through command line using instructions on btcarmory.com
-it took a few times of restarting computer and armory because it kept getting stuck on scanning transactions (99% - 1 second left).

I have to start via command line as no icon available when I search, but it works.
Thanks.

Thanks. The 0.96.1 version doesn't seem to want to install so I'll try to sort that out, but here is the error log https://pastebin.com/aRLrMRac.

why isn't the 0.96.1 version available at https://www.bitcoinarmory.com/download/
I've always been told to only download from the official armory site.

Hello, I'm struggling to get Armory to load correctly.
First received the BDM error when on version 0.93.3.
Updated to 0.96 then received "DB version mismatch. Use another dbdir!"
Deleted the database folder and restarted, then armory remains at Preparing Database (see screenshot here http://imgur.com/a/LVh5q). I've left it overnight and tried again this morning to no avail.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled Armory, rescanned database, factory reset.

Any ideas?

And I have the log file but does it compromise my wallet or privacy if posted?

Thanks in advance.