Of course it changes the GnuCash program folder. Stan asked about C:\Windows and C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files, and the GnuCash installer touches neither.
Yes, there are some data file changes, but aside from the SQLite3 one I already explained 2.6.19 is capable of operating on them. Regards, John Ralls > On Mar 25, 2018, at 7:36 PM, David Carlson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Does that 2.7.8 release really not change anything in the GnuCash program > folder in Windows OS? > > I can see if the data files are in different folders they will not interact, > but wouldn't new there be problems if the data file associated to the older > program release is accidentally saved with the new program release? > > And installing release 2.7.8 would delete program release 2.6.19 and vice > versa, wouldn't it? > > David C > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 7:50 PM, John Ralls <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On Mar 25, 2018, at 5:33 PM, Stan Brown <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > > On 2018-03-25 19:54, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.8, > >> the ninth release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0. This > >> release is a Release Candidate: If no bugs requiring major work are > >> reported the next release will be 3.0. > > > > John, > > > > Am I correct in assuming that the release is entirely self-contained in > > Windows, and doesn't install anything in C;\Windows\System32, > > "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files", etc? > > > > In other words, can I have 2.6.19 and 2.7.8 on the same Windows 7 PC, > > simply by installing them to different folders? I'm spending a lot of > > time converting seven years of data from a dBase file, and I don't want > > to install 2.7.8 if it will interfere with 2.6.19. > > Stan, > > Absolutely yes to the first question. > > Yes to the second with a couple of warnings: They use the same registry keys > and auxiliary file locations, so if you change the preferences in one it will > affect the other; that's true if you install them to separate directories or > reinstall back-and-forth to the same one. > > There's also a date-format incompatibility in the SQLite3 backend. It will be > resolved with 2.6.20 but you won't be able to open a SQLite3 database with > 2.6.19 once it's been written to by 2.7.x. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists > <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists> for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
