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Hi.
I've been reading as much as I can on the process of upgrading but still find myself with a few questions. My memory is that when I upgraded from 12.5 to 14 I failed to make a database back-up and lost all those projects. This time I've done a back-up of my 14 datbase and have exported all my individual project files. Where I seem to be getting mixed messages is on what happens next.
Some things I've read seem to say that when 15 is uploaded it will say "would you like to up-grade your database", and that when you select this your 14 database will be upgraded and your 14 projects will now become active; that is, you don't have to import the old database as part of this process. Yet, my remembered experience with 14 is that when it was installed it didn't retain and upgrade the old 12.5 database.
And why do so many things I've read (primarily a long piece by Patrick Inhoffer) emphasize the impotance of exporting and backing up both database and project files? Is this simply as a safely measure in case something screws up when upgrading to 15? Inhoffer says:
"Are you going to upgrade active or recent projects? If so, then before upgrading you need to export those projects. And then NEVER upgrade the original project! You will only ever import that exported version of the project, always leaving the original intact and untouched.
Are you going to upgrade an existing Database, with existing projects? If so, then export that database and NEVER upgrade the original database. The key is to always leaving the original intact and untouched."
In what he says I can't get the link he's making between that exported database and the creation of the database in 15. Equally, I can't understand why and in what way an imported project file or database would not necessarily be reconfigured within 15, yet Inhoffer even places in italic his admonition to "always leave the original intact and untouched."
So here's hoping someone can help me understand all this. until I do I'm going to be too nervous to upgrade to 15.
Thanks.
John
I've been reading as much as I can on the process of upgrading but still find myself with a few questions. My memory is that when I upgraded from 12.5 to 14 I failed to make a database back-up and lost all those projects. This time I've done a back-up of my 14 datbase and have exported all my individual project files. Where I seem to be getting mixed messages is on what happens next.
Some things I've read seem to say that when 15 is uploaded it will say "would you like to up-grade your database", and that when you select this your 14 database will be upgraded and your 14 projects will now become active; that is, you don't have to import the old database as part of this process. Yet, my remembered experience with 14 is that when it was installed it didn't retain and upgrade the old 12.5 database.
And why do so many things I've read (primarily a long piece by Patrick Inhoffer) emphasize the impotance of exporting and backing up both database and project files? Is this simply as a safely measure in case something screws up when upgrading to 15? Inhoffer says:
"Are you going to upgrade active or recent projects? If so, then before upgrading you need to export those projects. And then NEVER upgrade the original project! You will only ever import that exported version of the project, always leaving the original intact and untouched.
Are you going to upgrade an existing Database, with existing projects? If so, then export that database and NEVER upgrade the original database. The key is to always leaving the original intact and untouched."
In what he says I can't get the link he's making between that exported database and the creation of the database in 15. Equally, I can't understand why and in what way an imported project file or database would not necessarily be reconfigured within 15, yet Inhoffer even places in italic his admonition to "always leave the original intact and untouched."
So here's hoping someone can help me understand all this. until I do I'm going to be too nervous to upgrade to 15.
Thanks.
John
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