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How to upgrade from Streets & Trips 2006 to 2009?
Marvin, Purchased S&T 2009 for Christmas. I have 2006 installed with alot of my camping spots, truck stops, and various points of intrest downloaded in the program. I want to install 2009. Will I lose all my points? Will 09 pick up my downloads? Am I supposed to delete 2006 or will 09 copy over it and save my downloads? I,m not very computer literate so I need some help. Thanks GREG
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Re: How to upgrade from Streets & Trips 2006 to 2009?
You can keep your 2006 if you want. It will not over write it. The new 2009 will find and open the 2006 files.
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Re: How to upgrade from Streets & Trips 2006 to 2009?
I'll wait until a regular S&T user answers the question about the best way to install 2009 for sure. I just want to pop in a word of caution.
I think you can install it and leave your 2006 installation in place. From what I've seen in this forum about the incompatibilities in 2009 versus older versions of the files, I would certainly encourage you to make a couple of backup copies of your 2006 files and only experiment with a copy when you go to load them into 2009. I think the biggest problem with loading older versions of the data into 2009 is that the pushpin symbols get all screwed up because 2009 left out a bunch of them. I can't recall if there are other issues, but there has been much hair-pulling about the lack of backwards compatibility in the latest version. ...ken... |
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Re: How to upgrade from Streets & Trips 2006 to 2009?
Greg, I'd go with both of the above suggestions.
Big Dave's suggestion to keep version 2006 is an excellent one. I have always kept old Streets & Trips while installing a new version. If there is any problem with the new version, I still have my old version available. At a later time, when I'm confident the new one works fine, I can uninstall the old. Ken in Regine suggests to back up your files saved in the older version. That is indeed a must. Just copy them all to a different folder, before you attempt to open any of your precious old files in the new Streets and Trips version. When you open a file saved in an older S&T, the new S&T will prompt you to convert the older file into a new file format. If something goes wrong with the conversion, you will still have your back up copies that will still be openable at least in the old S&T. The above shouldn't really scare you, as in the vast majority of cases installation of Streets & Trips 2009 goes just fine, and opening old S&T files in new S&T version goes just fine, too. But it is always prudent to take the proper precautions.
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Re: How to upgrade from Streets & Trips 2006 to 2009?
You might also want to read thru this topic so as to see what has occurred when others have tried to install MS S&T 2009. Save you a few headache's to know beforehand.
Streets and Trips 2009 licensing initialization error The fix is simple, just takes time. |
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