[GNC] Installing 3.11 in Windows

[Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19)]

Thanks for the reply, David. Unfortunately I don't have the resources:
just a desktop and a laptop, both of which are used for production.

I'm not quite clear on your other suggestion, "in a different user space
on the same computer". In Windows, the default location for installs is
some subfolder of "C:\Program Files" for 64-bit programs, "C:\Program
Files (x86)" for 32-bit programs. Those are system-wide folders, not
part of any particular user's file space. The GC 3.11 installer seems
not to let me specify installing to say a GnuCash3 subfolder, and I
don't want to overwrite GC 2.6.19.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 2023-08-02 16:12, David Carlson wrote:
> Stan,
> 
> If you have the resources, I think that the safest migration path would
> be to install the next level of GnuCash on a completely different
> computer or in a different user space on the same computer, and try it
> out on a separate test data file.
> 
> This avoids all the potential issues of cross contamination between sets
> of data, too.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 5:58 PM Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19)
> <stan+gc at fastmail.fm <mailto:stan%2Bgc at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
> 
>     After putting it off again and again, I'm finally ready to upgrade to a
>     more recent version.
> 
>     1. I'm on 2.6.19 now. I know conventional advice is to upgrade to the
>     last minor version of each major version in turn. Do I really need to
>     upgrade to 2.6.21 before 3.11? If I really need to I will, but if it's
>     not necessary I'd just as soon save the time.
> 
>     2. I'd like to have GC 2, 3, and 4 on my computer at the same time,
>     installed to different directories of course, so that I can compare
>     reports from those versions of my data file. But the Windows installer
>     of 3.11 doesn't seem to offer a way to set the installation directory.
>     Am I missing something, or will it truly install only to the default
>     directory?
> 
>     3. If I'm planning to run GC in English only, can I safely un-tick the
>     "Translation Files" item in the installer?
> 
>     I looked at <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installation
>     <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installation>> but it didn't
>     help with #2 and #3. And <https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml
>     <https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml>> doesn't
>     have any documentation for 3.11 or any other 3.x.
> 
>     -- 
>     Stan Brown
>     Tehachapi, CA, USA
>     https://BrownMath.com <https://BrownMath.com>
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