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Upgrading to a New Version of NYC - Troubleshooting
I am running File… Upgrade… in NYC 6.02 trying to upgrade from NYC 5.97 where I had moved the user folder to another drive as “d:\nyc597user”. The Upgrade fails, and seems to be looking for the user folder in its original location under “c:\Users\Public\Documents\FFTS\Nyc597” . How do I upgrade?
This problem has been fixed in NYC 6.03 and later versions for situations where you are upgrading on the same PC (not upgrading from another PC). For NYC 6.02 and earlier:
Try the upgrade directly from the old user folder. That is, use the Browse… button in the Upgrade window to browse to the actual old user folder “d:\nyc597user”, such that “d:\nyc597user” shows in the blue text box on the Upgrade window. Then press Proceed. Using this method, it is advisable that the old user folder path include the old NYC version number as shown in this “d:\nyc597user” example.
Alternatively, run NYC 5.97 and use Tools… Options… User Folder… to move the user folder back to its original location “c:\Users\Public\Documents\FFTS\Nyc597\user”. Then run NYC 6.02 and use File… Upgrade… to bring over/upgrade user files from “c:\Users\Public\Documents\FFTS\Nyc597” and the Upgrade should work fine.
The above advice should be used in situations (using any new version) where you want to bring over user files from a previous version on another PC, as the moved user folder will not otherwise be brought over from the old PC.
I copied the entire folder of Nyc575 from an old XP PC to a new Windows 7 PC. When I try to upgrade (after installing latest NYC on new PC), the latest version gives me an error referring to the nyc.usr file: "Error in Upgrade procedure.. bad filename."
Open the file named in the error message (nyc.usr), and change the filename on the first line to match that where you put the old user folder on the Win 7 machine.
When I try to upgrade using File… Upgrade… then Browse… to “nyc/cookbook/user” (or whatever), NYC says it is not the old version (but it is). Any ideas?
When you use File... Upgrade... , NYC expects you to tell it the main folder where your previous version was installed. NYC will then find your official user folder (based on what is displayed in Tools... Options... User Folder...) and will bring over/upgrade files from that user folder (and no other).
Thus, if you have your user files stored in a folder OTHER than the official user folder, then the upgrade process will not work on those files. You might try simply importing those cookbooks into copies that are stored in your new version’s official user folder.
I downloaded the latest NYC 5.xx and tried to upgrade from my previous version. NYC asks for my previous version, but it's confused because it thinks I want to put the old and new in the same spot. Can you help?
You should install new versions of NYC into their default folder, which is a new folder each time. Then run the new version and use File... Upgrade... to bring over/upgrade user files from your previous version. You must dbl-click in the directory listbox until your previous NYC folder appears in the blue textbox. When that blue box shows your previous installation, you are ready proceed with the upgrade (press Proceed).
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