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

2020-09-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 9/17/20 4:36 PM, 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? This has been answered, but for completeness, Windows will offer to uninstall 3.8 before installing 4.1. 2 - Also I

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

2020-09-17 Thread Geoff
My recollection is that I just installed over the top without uninstalling first. Out of curiosity I installed 3.4 on a clean Windows machine, then installed 4.1 (without uninstalling first) and the installer gave me the option to uninstall the old version first, or it would uninstall it for

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

2020-09-17 Thread Dan Black
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 wrote: Did you remove 3.8 first or did the 4.1 upgrade see that you were running

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

2020-09-17 Thread Fran_3 via gnucash-user
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 wrote: Hi Fran I recently upgraded from 3.6 to 4.1 on

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

2020-09-17 Thread Geoff
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

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

2020-09-17 Thread Fran_3 via gnucash-user
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