[GNC] How to upgrade from 3.8 to 4.1 on Win10?

Dan Black dblack2001 at outlook.com
Thu Sep 17 20:14:18 EDT 2020


You can't have multiple versions installed on windows. The install process 
will prompt you about auto removing before installation can continue.

Dan

On September 17, 2020 7:37:24 PM Fran_3 via gnucash-user 
<gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Did you remove 3.8 first or did the 4.1 upgrade see that you were running 
> 3.8 and automatically do everything?Or can you have two simultaneous 
> versions?Thanks for the help.
>
>    On Thursday, September 17, 2020, 7:26:31 PM EDT, Geoff 
>    <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Fran
>
> I recently upgraded from 3.6 to 4.1 on Windows 10 without any issues.
>
> In the event of any problems, you can always revert to 3.8 as long as
> you have a clean backup of your data.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Geoff
> =====
>
> On 18/09/2020 7:36 am, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote:
>> Just now getting around to upgrading 3.4 to 4.1 on Win10.
>> 1 - I've downloaded 4.1. Do I just run it or first uninstall 3.8?
>> 2 - Also I see in the archives someone tried to upgrade from ver 2.x to ver 
>> 4...
>> and the following comment (amoung others)...
>> " Skipping versions (such as2.5 ---> 4.0 is not supported"
>> Does this apply to going from 3.8 to 4.1?
>> 3 - any other steps that should be performed to have things go smoothly?
>> I'm sure this is somewhere online or in the archives or Wiki but, after 
>> digging around for awhile, I just haven't stumbled across it so thanks in 
>> advance for any help.
>>
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