P.S.: Re: Rational Upgrade questions

P.S.: The best practice to install RDi 9.8 is, to extract the downloaded ZIP file, rename the extracted folder (that contains RDi.exe) and move it to a folder where your user profile has write-permission.

It's also good to have the path quite short, and if possible without Spaces in the path names.

Some examples might be:

C:\RDi98\RDi.exe

C:\Users\username\RDi98\RDi.exe

But that might be some sort of paranoia from my side, as I had some problems with long paths and path names with spaces in them. So your mileage may vary.

Later you can simply make a copy of that RDi98 folder, and rename it e.g. to RDi9802 - you can start each of this installations separately - and you can have as much installations as you like (and you disk space allows).

I always keep the last version for some weeks on my machine - and of course I install BETA versions separately and keep a copy of the last release version.

HTH
Daniel

Am 22.10.2024 um 19:35 schrieb Daniel Gross <daniel@xxxxxxxx>:

Hi Buck,


Von meinem iPhone gesendet

Am 22.10.2024 um 19:06 schrieb Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>:

Adding to Daniel's excellent reply,

Thanks

may I suggest that you first make a copy of the 9.6 workspace. Call it workspace98 or something. When you start 9.8, point it to this copy. That will leave all of the filters and so on intact in the 9.6 so that you can do a side-by-side comparison if you like.

Yes - and no. A copy/backup of the workspace is always a good thing.

But we testet the workspace conversion forward (9.6 -> 9.7) and backwards (9.8 -> 9.6) with some workspaces for hundreds of times, and that part never failed for us.

So it's pretty safe, to use the same workspace with both versions - even if there always pops up a conversion prompt.

When installing a new version, I always make a copy of my workspace. In addition, I like to periodically do a File > Export in case I need to test something against a brand new, unpopulated workspace. If I've already created an export, I can import the bits I want; for example, filters :-)

I have a setup that Zips my workspace and gives it a name with date and time in it. I do this at least twice a week - because you can never know, when you mess up that thing.

Right now I'm working more or less exclusively on 9.8.0.2 - also because the old version doesn't have the new RPG features, that I'm using notoriously - and sometimes I'm driving my colleagues insane with that ;-).

Regards,
Daniel
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