Saving data before upgrading to 2.4.0

[Robert Plantz]

My thanks to everyone who helped me here. I'm fairly new to Windows so 
am not as comfortable with doing things in it.

The upgrade went well. Yes, my previous version was 2.2.9, and the 
installer took care of unstalling it for me. My previous data files were 
left intact, and they work perfectly with 2.4.0. Being a firm believer 
in Murphy, I copied my C:\Users\bob\Documents\gnucash folder to an 
external disk before doing the upgrade.

--Bob


On 12/31/2010 1:52 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> 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