I have a Mega 2560 and I installed the IDE on my Windows 7 PC with no problem. The driver loaded OK and I found the Arduino was assigned to COM3. I uploaded some sketches and all fine. Then I ran the IDE again, loaded a sketch and it compiled but failed on upload saying the COM port was not avail…

IDE loses COM port

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