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M.Yu:
I pre-purchased MC 25.  I currently have MC 21.  I just downloaded and installed MC 24.  After installation I see that the 24 did not import any of my previous settings from MC 21.  How can I get the settings from 21 into 24?  Shouldn't the installation of 24 pick up the settings and data of 21 and display them?

Any help is appreciated!

blgentry:
With MC for Mac, it's totally normal for new versions to totally ignore the old version(s) that are installed.  But it's fairly easy to get up and running again.  Here's a brief outline.

1.  Open MC21 (your old version) and run a backup.  File > Library > Backup Library.  Make note of the folder that this backup file goes to.
2.  Close MC21.  Open the new MC, which should be MC24.
3.  Now import that backup into the new version of MC:  File  > Library > Restore Library > (Choose the backup you just make from the folder you put it in).  You should probably let it restore settings too, that way you'll get all of your old settings in the new version too.

That should mostly do it.  Good luck!

Brian.

M.Yu:
Thank you!

macdonjh:
I'm getting ready to do just this.  While I was looking through my folder of library back-ups I noticed that some files had a date (e.g. 2019-01-24), while a few files had just the month (e.g. January).  What is the difference between these two types of back-up files?

blgentry:
MC keeps making backups, every few days, or (I think) each time you stop and start it, with a maximum of one per day.  At the beginning of each month, it makes a backup with the name of the month.  This backup is the same as any other, except it was made at the beginning of the month and has a month name in it's title.

MC prunes the old backups, but I'm not sure what the schedule is.  I think it keeps around 3 days of backups around, *AND* keeps every monthly backup.  So after a year you would have something like 12 monthly backups and 30 days worth of the latest backups.

Brian.

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