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Upgraded MC17 to MC 20, but installed not upgraded, now unable to remove MC17
Arindelle:
--- Quote from: krmasson on October 14, 2014, 06:35:32 am ---I am also considering switching from MC17 to MC 20.
Looks not very fun an somewhat time consuming.
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Well fun maybe not time consuming 5 minutes per PC.
Understand that between 18 and 19 there are major differences; I don't remember 17 frankly - so to avoid issues and not waste time trying to fix things later, I highly recommend what I said earlier. Backing up a version 17 library to version 20 could/will cause issues depending on your set-up. These upgrades are setup to go from one consecutive version to another. Your library metadata might be intact but all your customizations who knows
first download 18,19,20 from the top of each board on this forum (2 minutes? maybe three?)
--- Quote ---Would the following work ?
Backup MC 17 library
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1 - YES!
--- Quote ---Uninstall MC 17
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I would not do this
--- Quote ---Install MC 20
Restore library from backup ?
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NO or ok, rather at your own risk
then...
2- install version 18 - 1 minute
3- install version 19 - 1 minute
4- install version 20 - 1 minute
5- without removing any of your library backups; now uninstall versions in order: 17, then 18. I would recommend leaving 19 on your computer for a bit as 20 is very new, but then again its probably no longer necessary.
PS - More than one version can co-exist on your PCs, don't worry about it. Make sure any shortcuts for old version are removed, and if you are networked, check that you are not autoloading media server at startup from older versions. Check your audio settings in Options, Audio -- they are now by zone and not where they were in version 17. If you have multiple zones, check them individually.
If you have clients, you could uninstall version 17 first. Make sure version 20 runs well on the PC running media server, restore its backup to a clean install of version 20 on the client. You would have to set the clients audio config up but you would have an identical UI, views and things as the server pc. For the main server install of JRiver though I would do it like I said above -- there might be workarounds but this is easy.
--- Quote ---Thx in advance
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you are welcome :D hope this helped
RoderickGI:
I would expand this bit just a little, as my version 20 install didn't bring the MC19 database over as well as I would have liked.
then...
Manually backup version 17
2- install version 18 - 1 minute
Restore MC17 backup into MC18
Open MC18 and do a quick check
Manually backup version 18
3- install version 19 - 1 minute
Restore MC18 backup into MC19
Open MC19 and do a quick check
Manually backup version 19
4- install version 20 - 1 minute
Restore MC19 backup into MC20
Open MC20 and do a quick check
I'm not completely sure if it is supposed to be necessary to backup the previous version and restore to the new version, but that worked better for me. Regardless the whole process wouldn't take long.
Oh, and don't forget that to uninstall earlier versions, start them again once first, then uninstall.
Arindelle:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on October 14, 2014, 05:07:04 pm ---I would expand this bit just a little, as my version 20 install didn't bring the MC19 database over as well as I would have liked.
I'm not completely sure if it is supposed to be necessary to backup the previous version and restore to the new version, but that worked better for me. Regardless the whole process wouldn't take long.
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it never hurts to do a manual backup before upgrading anything, so why not. However the restores should not be required unless something funky happens. Probably faster to do one than find out what went wrong, I'll give you that :)
--- Quote ---Oh, and don't forget that to uninstall earlier versions, start them again once first, then uninstall.
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best I've found to do them in order (I don't know why?!) but you can keep them if you wish (just make sure that nothing is running in the background (like turning off media server on start up of windows, autoimport etc. on old versions -- you need the current version of the server running; this happens to me as I always keep the previous version on my PCs for testing.
Also those coming from older version should reanalyze their files.
krmasson:
Worked fine for me, and I did not had to backup and restore at each step (MC 18/19/20 was launched automatically after installation at each step, and implicitely got the current library settings of the previous version (17/18/19)).
Just made a manual backup of the MC 17 version, in case of, but did not actually used it.
I nevertheless find the process a little heavy (I have 2 computers, one where I rip and tag my music, and a 2nd one, dedicated to playing, both with different settings for views).
Just to improve my knowledge, why are we supposed to launch each old version (17/18/19) before uninstalling it ?
BTW, the BubbleUPnP Android remote app, which was a pure synchronization nightmare with MC17, worked just fine with MC20, with default settings (I do not know exactly which settings came from my library or from the previous versions, and which ones where default). Gapless plays also well.
Just one thing remains to do: pay my license :-)
RoderickGI:
Lots of people report that the uninstall of a previous version doesn't work unless you first launch that version. I think it depends on such things as whether you ran the server in the previous version or not. But I have seen that a previous version will ask if it can make changes to your system when it is first run after running a later version.
Basically, if it won't uninstall, run it then uninstall.
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