Thursday, February 24, 2005
Upgrading from older versions of Foxfire!
In older versions of Foxfire!, the upgrade process copied files between the existing installation and the new version and subsequently upgraded the older version.
In Foxfire! 8.0, we have simplified the process. Install Foxfire! 8.0 in a new folder and then select Upgrade from Existing Version under the Tools menu. You can select which preference sets you want to move over and then all of your existing files will be copied to the new version of Foxfire!.
Why are we doing this?
Primarily to make it easier Some developers we met had more than 5 different installations of Foxfire! on their system. While disk space isn't expensive, you should only ever need one version of Foxfire! 8.0 installed on your workstation. This version would contain all of the different preference sets you may use in your application.
Then when you need to distribute specific preferences from Foxfire!, you can use the Distribution Wizard.
Foxfire! 8.0 can upgrade most versions of Foxfire!. We've used it successfully with 2.x, 3.0, 3.0+ and 6.0 installations of Foxfire!.
In the beta, there are some glitches that we are working out. Most of these can usually be resolved by doing a full reindex (under the System admin options) after doing the upgrade.
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