[GNC] Updating advice

[Finbar Mahon]

Sorry, I meant doing the first option (as I  should have been:-[) before 
updating to 3.3.

Thanks for the information. I'll have a look at the wiki.

B

On 30/12/2018 10:57, Colin Law wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 09:49, Finbar Mahon <mahon.finbar at neuf.fr> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to do a backup of the current installation as of 31.12.2018 and
>> install the latest version (3.3?) from 1.1.2019. First is this a
>> worthwhile action and is there any particular process I should follow? I
>> have looked around the documentation but I didn't find a "how to"
> Do you mean backing up your accounts data?  If so then that is
> something everyone should already be doing regularly.  A computer or
> disk may go up in smoke (literally or metaphoricallly) at any time,
> taking all your account history with it if you are not doing regular
> backups.  See this for information on what to backup.
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup
>
> If you mean you want to backup the software itself so you can easily
> revert to the old version should you need to then that is not normally
> something one would do, though I believe Windows has a mechanism for
> keeping a snapshot of the current system so you can revert if you want
> to.  You can always uninstall the latest and install an earlier one if
> you want to, though it is not guaranteed that accounts data which have
> been used with 3.3 will be usable with an earlier version, so you
> might have to go back to an earlier backup of your accounts
>
> Colin
>
>> I am using 2.6.19 on Windows 10.
>>
>> TIA, Barry
>>
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