# Upgrading to new revision

**URL:** <https://forum.servoy.com/t/upgrading-to-new-revision/752>\
**Category:** Classic Servoy\
**Created:** [November 25, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/upgrading-to-new-revision/752 "2003-11-25T16:55:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Harry\_Catharell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19adc/32.png) [@Harry\_Catharell](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Harry_Catharell)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/upgrading-to-new-revision/752/1 "2003-11-25T16:55:02Z")

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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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**Author:** ![david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://forum.servoy.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/upgrading-to-new-revision/752/2 "2003-11-25T17:49:31Z")

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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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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/uploads/servoy/original/1X/363c5924e316baabbea11f046f1e2f3db64fbf70.jpeg) [@system](https://forum.servoy.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/upgrading-to-new-revision/752/3 "2003-11-25T18:07:22Z")

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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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**Author:** ![ROCLASI](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/roclasi/32/4371_2.png) [@ROCLASI](https://forum.servoy.com/u/ROCLASI)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/upgrading-to-new-revision/752/4 "2003-11-25T18:21:41Z")

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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 ![:)]( "Smile")