Saving data before upgrading to 2.4.0

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 31 December 2010, Robert Plantz wrote:
> Thanks for your comments, Anthony.
> 
> So "uninstalling" should leave my data files in place?
> 
Yes, it should.

And contrary to what the website says, you don't have to uninstall the older 
version yourself. The installer will take care of it for you.

> Yes, I will definitely back up my data files before uninstalling
> 2.3.9 and installing 2.4.0. I've made that mistake several
> times in the past, and I'm sure I'll do it again. :-)
> 
Do you really mean 2.3.9, which was a development version which had a crasher 
bug ? Or did you mean 2.2.9, the last previous stable release ?

It doesn't matter for the installation though. As others have said, the data 
file won't be touched and is compatible.

Geert