Sherry,
While technically it really doesn't matter, but I beg to differ with
your comment.
My Legacy 8 was installed at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Legacy8
My Legacy 9 got installed to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Legacy9
Note the version # at the very end of the folder name. So Legacy 9 is
either deleting the old Legacy8 folders, or it is renaming them.
Seeing the different folder names is why I thought I was safe, why I
thought I'd be able to have both 8 (deluxe) and 9 (basic) installed at
the same time.
I realize that "installing on top of" the old version (or "installing
and DELETING/RENAMING old version as Legacy 9 apparently does") saves
support a lot of headaches - I remember many forum e-mails from people
going from 7 to 8 that kept getting confused on which icon to use, which
datafile to use, etc. But since all(?) previous versions of Legacy
allowed the old version to stay in place, this version should either do
the same ('cause that is what Legacy users are used to) OR it should
give an obvious warning that version 8 will NOT be available after the
install. A blatant warning is ESPECIALLY important since the program
folder names are different and thus the install (as it is now) IMPLIES
that version 8 will be "safe and usable" after version 9 is installed.
(And, if it could offer to leave version 8 around that would even be
better).
If I had known my version 8 would be blown away, I would have initially
installed version 9 in a "sandbox" (VM machine) until I was truly ready
to do the real upgrade.
Bob
On 04/18/2017 20:48, Sherry wrote:
Margaret,
v9 doesn't "delete" v8 - it installs over it, like practically every
other program does when upgrading.
You can run v7 and v9 side-by-side but the files are not compatible.
You will have to covert a v7 file to the v9 format and in v9 you will
need to make a gedcom to import into v7, which can lose several things
like shared events, hashtags, history list, bookmarks, relationships, etc.
Did you realize that LTools doesn't fully support the v7 database,
particularly events? It should work with the v8 or v9 database (except
for events). I haven't tried it yet.
Sherry
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Margaret Turner <mgroga...@gmail.com
<mailto:mgroga...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I understand installing v9 deletes v8.
I would like to have both versions instlled.
I would do changes in v7, and when required, copy legacy data file
and open it (ie no updates) in 9.
Then I would go back to work on v7 data using v7
I am dependent on ltools.
Thanks
:)
Margaret
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