[GNC] Installing 3.11 in Windows

[David Carlson]

I guess I was either thinking of multi-boot systems or virtual machines
when I said different user space.  If you use virtual machines, you can
have many machines in one computer, but that requires a very powerful
computer and lots of drive space to implement.

On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 7:20 PM Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19) <
stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> 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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David Carlson