Sean Cole wrote:
> Roger, Make a backup of 6.7 first just in case. I doubt that it would
> remove 6.7 (RR and LC never delete older versions from your machine
> when installing - I've still got every version right back to 5.5) but
> keep one safe anyway.
LiveCode always installs each version into its own folder, so your older
versions will remain in place.
Perhaps what the installer was referring to is the OS file type
association. On Windows this is governed by the Registry, and IIRC is
updated with each LC install. On Mac it's governed by voodoo using
unknowable rules in the Finder, so that sometimes it'll use the most
recently-installed version of an app but sometimes it'll decide to
fixate on one particular version.
But that only governs what happens when you double-click a stack in the
file manager.
As long as you open the version you want to work with and then use
File->Open in the IDE you'll always have complete control over which
version you're using.
> And make backups of your projects while you're at it.
Excellent advice for all data made with all applications.
Hard drives fail, file systems get corrupted, systems get hacked, and
then there are fires, floods, earthquakes, etc. Merde happens.
At a minimum everyone should have at least three copies of any data they
consider non-disposable, with one of those copies rotated off-site.
Here I maintain 5 copies of everything. Storage is cheap, and time is
precious.
Worth taking 5 minutes to read up on rsync to quickly back up folders:
<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-rsync-to-sync-local-and-remote-directories-on-a-vps>
Like many good programs rsync has a lot of options, but for simple
one-way syncing the -av flags are usually sufficient when working with
local volumes:
rsync -av /volume/sourcefolder/ /backup/destfolder/
Across networks it's helpful to add -z for compression:
rsync -avz /volume/sourcefolder/ user@domain:/backup/destfolder/
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Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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