Two version of DS

seeker273

I'm weary of installing any new version without keeping my stable one at least for a while. When I tried to install 4.9 it prompted me to uninstall my previous version even though I installed in a different directory. I was wondering if there's a trick so I can have both 4.8 and 4.9 on my computer?

Richard Haseltine

You can have the beta and the release build at the same time - the beta must be installed with DIM. Note that chnages made to the CMS database in 4.9 will not be seen in 4.8 (chnaged categories and your own saved files, though you can open the latter directly as usual).

seeker273

Richard Haseltine said:

You can have the beta and the release build at the same time - the beta must be installed with DIM. Note that chnages made to the CMS database in 4.9 will not be seen in 4.8 (chnaged categories and your own saved files, though you can open the latter directly as usual).

Thanks Richard but I'm still a little scared to attempt it. Is 4.9 still in beta? Are you certain that through DIM, 4.8 will not be unistalled? I'm not really good with changes :(

Richard Haseltine

Theer is a release build of 4.9 (4.9.2.70) but there's also a Public beta (4.9.3.something). Recently the public beta has been available even once the release version has caught up so that people can have a choice. As for 4.8 release/4.9 beta, I uninstalled 4.8 once there was a 4.9 release version but others are still using that combination

seeker273

So I can't really have a 4.8/4.9 releases only 4.8/4.9Beta ? Sorry to be a pain :(

 

Richard Haseltine

You can have 4.8 release and 4.9 beta

seeker273

Thanks Richard, given the problems with the latest beta I'll [probably skip it for now :)

BeeMKay

I'm running 4.8 and the current Beta of 4.9 side by side, and experience no problems.

seeker273

I'll give it a shot :)