RC 4? (1 Viewer)

[EViS]

Only last night did I uninstall my old RC1 to install RC3, spent a few hours setting everything up incl. plugins. I should have been more patient haha! I take it that RC4 (1.0 'final') will be installable ontop of RC3 without any problems? Or will we have to uninstall RC3 prior to install this release?

 

[infinite.loop]

Only last night did I uninstall my old RC1 to install RC3, spent a few hours setting everything up incl. plugins. I should have been more patient haha! I take it that RC4 (1.0 'final') will be installable ontop of RC3 without any problems? Or will we have to uninstall RC3 prior to install this release?

you will have to uninstall it, yes.

but you should be able to re-use your current userfiles (copy them back) without any issues.
but as always we recommend clean installations in case you re-used old files and ecounter issues.

 

[EViS]

Can I simply use the entirety of "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal" for the new installation? Or is this still unadvisable?

 

[zicoz]

What are you complaining about? Formating is FUN

 

[revs]

hahah having spent a couple of days formatting and reinstalling windows...no, its not

although I have now imaged the drive after installing windows, drivers and updates but without MP. So now I can quickly get to a clean windows install and then just have to install MP - i hope this makes my upgrades nice and easy!

 

[zicoz]

I did the same, but don't forgett to install the codecs aswell before you create the image, can save some time there aswell

And then create a fake "Program Files\Team Mediaportal\Mediaportal\" with" \plugins\ " and "\skins\" in it so that you can just copy it over to C:\ after you have installed MP.

Only problem is that lately this hasn't worked due to the reason one needs to have new versions for each RC

 

[revs]

Yep - installed codecs too, and a few other "base" programs.

 

[infinite.loop]

Can I simply use the entirety of "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal" for the new installation? Or is this still unadvisable?

When you uninstal MediaPortal it offers you to do a clean un-installation.
Do NOT choose that if you want to re-use your userfiles.

The installation of a new MediaPortal version will rename

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal

to

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal_backup_date

So if you want to re-use your old userfiles, then just copy them back.

Exactly the same happens to the "MediaPortal" folder in your installation directory (i.e. C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal)
If you want to re-use skins and plugins, just copy them back.

But please be aware that this could always cause issues.

 

[EViS]

Thanks infinityloop! I bet the server bandwidth is blasting through with everybody refreshing the homepage in hope of an update . The Trunk at SourceForge.net Repository - [mediaportal] is definitely active at the moment anyway...

 

[infinite.loop]

Thanks infinityloop! I bet the server bandwidth is blasting through with everybody refreshing the homepage in hope of an update

I am sorry, but the News will appear next week, not this weekend.