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) > <[email protected] <mailto:stan%[email protected]>> 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> > _______________________________________________ > 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> > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > -- > David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
