how long to keep old versions of C1
I now have three versions of C1 installed on my Mac (v10, v11, and v12). I was advised by a long time C1 user that I should keep old versions unless I am constrained by disk space. Well, I am not disk constrained, but is there any benefit/reason to keep v10 and v11?
In my LR days, any time I needed an old copy I could go to my Adobe account and download the Ap. The only time that I went the historical download route was when my hard drive failed and I had to reinstall the current version of LR & PS.
In my LR days, any time I needed an old copy I could go to my Adobe account and download the Ap. The only time that I went the historical download route was when my hard drive failed and I had to reinstall the current version of LR & PS.
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I can't think of a reason to keep the TWO previous versions. I usually keep one previous version, but really I never go back and use it, so there is no good reason to once my use of the newest version has bedded in.
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It's really a matter of convenience for you.
You can download old versions from the Capture One software archive.
If you upgrade then the Catalogs or Session database files that you access with the new version will be updated to the requirements of the new version.
A backup copy of the previous version catalogue/session file will be automatically saved in case you find you need it.
If you have upgraded the Catalogue/Session from, say, V10 to V11 you would not then be able to open the V11 version of the catalogue/session in V10. However you could re0nstate the backed up version should you find a need to go back to V10.
The EDITS in the Catalogue or the Session sidecar files are also maintained. Thi8s is done in 2 ways (that I am aware of)
Firstly and going back several versions, Capture One maintains access to earlier version processing 'engines'. So if you have a V10 set of edits but convert (by opening it) the Catalogue/Session to V11 or V12 the images are not automatically upgraded at the same time. If your image was edited in V10 you can continue to edit it using the V10 engine should you wish to. However if you change it to V11 or V12 you cannot change it back later.
If you wish to see what, if an, effect the might be by changing the engine for an image you can close a variant and change the engine setting selected for the new variant. Then compare the two variants side by side on screen.
Secondly you have the backup copy of the catalogue which contains the edits as they were in the previous version, or, it using session, each version (or major change to the processing engine data structure) will have its own folder of sidecar files retained in case they might be wanted in the future.
So there is a lot of flexibility available.
I have never deleted any of them over the years but I probably should. I think it is quite unlikely that I will need to revisit V6 unless I decide to refresh my recollection of what it looked like back then!0 -
I usually keep the old version for a couple of weeks then flush it. you can always reload an old version later if you find the need. 0 -
I still have a version CO 10, but haven't used for a very long time. I think I will delete it this weekend.
When I installed CO 12, I removed CO 11.0, 11.1 and 11.2. CO 11.3 is still installed, but I'm not using it anymore except for some testing. Once documents have been converted to version 12 format, they can't be used with CO 11.
I tend to keep the latest version of each "dot release", e.g. suppose Phase One releases 12.01 and 12.03, and then 12.1 and 12.11, I would keep 12.03 (in my 12.0 folder) and 12.11 (in my 12.1 folder)
Applications
>Capture One
>CO_Beta
>CO11.3
>CO12.0
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Although you can keep multiple versions on your system, the general advice is to have only a single version installed to prevent potential conflicts and confusion for the user. So if there is no need for you to have older versions, you better can remove them.
I am a nerd who keeps older versions, back to CO5 on macOS and CO7 on Windows in different virtual machines. I still plan to install Windows XP in a VM, which allows me to go back to CO3 (CO1 actually). Not something for the average user. 😁0
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