Do Not use the Add/Remove program function to remove the old copy of FOW after installing the new copy! Best procedure is to remove the old FOW first, after making backup's of your data. Be sure to test your backup's before proceeding. Then, install the new copy. Give it a good testing using copies of your data. When satified, use your live data. The reason you remove first is Windows will be deleting files based upon the latest Install Log for FOW. This deletes the new version if you installed it. What you will have left is part of the old program and your data. Unless you are knowledgeable, you have messy left-overs.. I concur with the advice of others, keep your data separate fropm the program and install in a new directory. I never use the default directory from the setup programs. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Cann" <decann@infi.net> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 11:58 AM Subject: [FO] New directory for FO 10 or not?? > I still have not received my FO 10 yet (Grrrrrr!), but when I do I am > intending to install it into a new directory. Instead of the default > directory where FO 9.02 currently resides, I want to eliminate the "Parsons > Technology" folder entirely and put FO directly in the "Program Files" > folder along with everything else. Once done and functioning properly, I > intend to "uninstall" 9.02, which should leave nothing but all of my backup > copies behind (which I also have on diskette). I will then transfer the > backups to the same place in the new FO 10 directory. > > Keeping in mind that I tend sometimes to do things without considering the > possible consequences if something goes wrong, this brings to mind a couple > of questions I would like to throw out for "the resident experts" on this > list: > > 1. Is there any reason I should not do what I outlined above? > > 2. In view of the statement below that "it is not a good idea" to put your > backups in the same folder with the program, can someone tell me why? I > have done it for years with no trouble at all, although I also keep copies > on diskette, but I have yet (knock on wood) to resort to any backup due to > malfunction. > > Before the mailman arrives with my FO 10 and I "go over the deep end" and > do something stupid (again!), I would appreciate some advice from some of > you out there, if I can get it. I have used FO since version 3, and I can > see no reason not to do it, but if I am wrong it will sadly not be a > lifetime first. > > David > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 08/25/2001, at 12:04 PM, Tony Grisolia wrote: > > >Original message from: "C. G. Ouimet" > >>He/She probably installed 10 in a new folder. Once 10 was confirmed as > OK, > >>9 was uninstalled and the 9 folder was removed. My guess is the > database(s) > >>was/were in the 9 folder, which isn't a good idea ... > > > > > >That's close to what I figured, I guess my real question is why. Why make > a production > >out of a simple upgrade, as long as you have good current backups? > > > >Tony Grisolia > > > > > <clip> > > MSgt David E. Cann, USMC (Ret'd) > Phone: 540-372-7868 > Fax: 540-372-7707 > E-mail: decann@infi.net > Family home page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > UNSUBSCRIBE? Send the word: UNSUBSCRIBE(inside the message) and no additional text to: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L-request@rootsweb.com or FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com for DIGEST > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2