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Would someone more familiar than I please just check my thinking on installing an upgrade ... it appears logical to me, however that's often the one moment when an unrealised lack of appreciation keeps a pitfall concealed!

So ....

After tinkering with a couple of versions in the past I returned to BIAB a few months ago after 5 years working overseas, and updated from 2008.5 to 2013. I subsequently added a selection of Real Tracks.

I have just purchased 2014 EverythingPAK upgrade, and am poised to install it.

Comparing the downloaded files with those in the installed 2013 update and the additions, a number appear to be the same ... which is to be selectively expected of course.

However, same-name files aren't necessarily always same-content ... dlls for example.

So my question is generally asking whether I CAN safely ignore files with the same name as those installed as part of a previous upgrade, and just install those that are new/differently-named, or should ALL be installed over itself regardless if necessary in order to freshen/rebuild anything?

Right now I am approaching BIAB in the same way as any other piece of software and presuming that I can leave-alone duplicated files where I already have them (e.g. Real Tracks - I can't imagine there being a change once created. Ditto with "H-Q instruments - Sample Tank" and any other *basics*.)

But as BIAB doesn't install in the registry and the programme files folder as is conventional, but instead standalone in C drive folders from where it runs, maybe there's a reason why my assumptions are misguided even though appearing logical.

So then ... should I install the BIAB_Real Band_2014_full file(s) then work through just the rest that are new/differently-named and they will integrate .... or should I install everything regardless?

... (though presumably not bother with re-installing/overlaying the Real Tracks / HQ instruments I already have?)

A very basic question I know, but I would hate to create conflicts or worse whether through omission or unnecessary duplication, by unknowingly making a wrong assumption.

Thanks.

Hi Hannay,

I've had a heap of upgrades and I always simply install each new version of the pre-existing one. I did that this year, too, in going from ver. 2013 to ver. 2014. No problems were encountered.

By installing straight over the top, as you point out, files are updated. Also, any special bonus packs you've picked up along the way stay and any styles you modified or created also stay.

Hope this helps,
Noel

I always download and install everything in the new release, regardless of whether I think I already have it or not.

Doing it that way, I make good and sure that if there have been any updates to any of those things that I may have missed or something, -- I'll now have them.

Of course, if bandwidth and internet connection are a problem, then you might prefer to wait on the hard copy delivery. In some cases, that has been happening faster than many expect this year.


--Mac

Thank you Noel, thanks Mac ... good to have that input, reassuring and much appreciated.

And apologies for the unintended late response: With the time difference (UK) I had just gone to bed when you replied, and after a busy day today I have only just come back here.

Again, thanks.