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JimH:
How To Upgrade
Please read these instructions.

Download and Install The New Version
Download Page

Find Your License and Restore it
Please read Restoring a License

Moving Your Data and MC Database On Windows
When you install MC28 for Windows, it will find your old database, copy it and use it.  It should just work when you run it.

On Mac or Linux
You will need to restore a backup from your previous version.   MC makes them automatically.  Search for files ending in .zip.

Backup and Restore
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Library_Backup
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Restore_a_library

Backups can now contain settings and thumbnails.

What About Your Old Version?
Keep it as long as you want.  Uninstall it when you're happy with your new version.  Uninstalling doesn't affect the new version or your data.

keithsonic:
I have followed the instructions to upgrade from MC28 and all went fine except that I have lost all my settings/views/skins etc. More problematic, after enabling DLNA and shell integration in settings and loading my library, I can only see links to my NAS as IP addresses and not direct links to the actual files as physical addresses. The only way I can see around this is to reimport all 100k plus files, which takes hours. Where did I go wrong?

JimH:
Try restoring a backup from a previous version.

What OS?

keithsonic:
OS is Windows 10 (latest version)
Backup only seems to work for a local library and not a DLNA library on a NAS.
When I copy a new music file to the NAS with WE and then import it to MC I see an actual physical address in the filename path.
When I load the MC28 library from the NAS all files have an HTTP IP address and all settings are lost including 'Recent Albums' which it is important that I retain.
Thanks for your help.

JimH:
With a NAS, import the files directly into MC.  Don't use the DLNA Server to serve them to MC.

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