4.9 - Upgrade or Fresh Install
tring01
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This question is for all those early adopters out there.
I've been considering doing a fresh install of Daz for a while. Given that I'm ready to go through the fresh install process - would one recommend upgrading to 4.9 via a fresh install or via the upgrade path to 4.8? Any compelling reasons to go one way or the other?
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If you just update for the new version you won't have to backup your database or anything like that. Although you should back them up whenever you do an update. I would just update it. Will save you a lot of time.
I'm asking because of what I experienced a few months ago. I had a catastrophic hard drive failure so had to reinstall everything from scratch. The reinstall of 4.8 ran over night and was flawless. It also resolved a number of errors and issues I was having before. It makes me suspect that, like Windows itself, you're just better off doing a clean install once in a while. So...I guess I'm really asking if I would loose anything valuable by doing a clean install rather than an upgrade. I'm not worried about the time. I just kick it off at bed time and it's done by morning.
Tring01,
I agree with you about needing to do a fresh install once in a while, but because of the Windows OS alone. I know it's time, when one of my systems starts getting to be too slow. Usually, it's between 2 to 3 years. Then, I just back up my data, my internet favorites and use my restore disk to set it back to factory specs. After that, it usually takes me up to a week or so to reinstall everything and it runs a lot better.
If you ask me, it's what anyone thinking of "upgrading" to Windows 10 should do. Anytime you upgrade an OS, you're also bringing in the the old problems, BUT...because, I believe Windows 10 is still in testing and now we're all the test bunnies, Windows 10 is actually bombling big time on some systems. I just picked up the upgrade on a brand new system, whihc didn't even have any other software installed yet. Then, i started putting just some of my stuff on it, but after a little over a month Windows 10 became unusable. I spent over 6 hours working on fixing the problem and still don't have it all fixed yet. Over 110 Milion computers may have picked up the upgrade, but I wonder how many kept it, how many are happy with it and worse yet, how many systems did it destroy in the process!