Upgrading to new revision

Classic Servoy
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OS X 10.3

Have been working/exploring in r1.2rc7 for a while and now want to download rc10 and get advantage from the wealth of fixes/additions inside it.

But I want to retain any work on solutioins created using rc7.

Is there a set of guidelines anywhere for upgrading to a new version of Servoy where you can retain all new solutions created in the older version ?

I have created solutions using FireBird on my local machine and also SQL Server 2000 on another server on the LAN

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Option 1: install right on top of your old version. Make a backup of your database folder first!

Option 2: install a clean version of servoy.

  • export all of your solutions to text files
  • Rename your current Servoy directory to something like “servoy127”
  • install the new version of servoy
  • recreate database connections to SQL Server
  • import solution files.

With option 2 you can run both versions of Servoy. This is covered somewhere else, just couldn’t find the thread for you.

  • david
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Thankyou, David

I will try out option 1 I believe but it is nice to know that you can have multiple instances of Servoy available…

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I never have to export my solutions or re-enter my database connections when upgrading to a new version.

I simply rename the old servoy folder and do the install.
Then I move (or you can copy) the servoy.properties file and databases back to the new folder.
Start new servoy and you are ready to go.

Works for me :)