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Upgrading your only backup file? (none / 0) (#4)
by MrsPost on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 07:04:50 AM PDT

I may come off as a troll here but who upgrades their only current datafile? Or even doesn't make a current backup before upgrading?

I always make a copy of any file that needs to be 'upgraded' so I know I'm not going to lose any information if there's a problem or I want to downgrade.

Especially with companies like Intuit I know there isn't going to be a 'revert to previous version' or ability to downgrade. So better safe than sorry, make a copy of the datafile, then upgrade.

You will lose whatever you had entered into the new version obviously but you won't lose the bulk of your data.

And for even more safety move those copies to some directory the program doesn't use. There's no telling if they're going to be helpful and remove them during the upgrade.

Yes, I'm cynical. But experiences like this have taught me to be so.



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