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I am new to this and have been running Gotham 13.1 for about a month now. The other day a saw a pop up in Gothom, I think it was to update my version but I didn't do it because I didn't know if it would change my existing setup. I have since made a backup and have tried to restore it to a new version of Gotham on a new hard drive. I am getting a warning message that I am trying to restore this backup to different version. I have found that the version on my new hard drive is 13.2. My question is, can I upgrade my 13.1 to 13.2 without it changing my existing setup, make another backup and then restore to the 13.2 version my new hard drive? If so how do I go about doing the 13.1 to 13.2 update?
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You just install the new version on top of the old version. It's always good to make a backup, but it's not a requirement. Minor updates like 13 to 13.3 will not change any features and are just bug fixes.
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to be fair to database devs, database file is always copied when version is being bumped so in theory(not that its always the case) running 12.3 on 13.2 userfolder should be possible
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h.udo
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2014-08-26, 20:25
(This post was last modified: 2014-08-26, 20:25 by h.udo.)
Assuming you're running Windows, download the latest version file and run it. If not, post your OS.
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I this question for a long time: why cant Xbmc be updated inside, like other software, why we must download the next version and replace the older version?