Hi redditors!

I’ve been a 2.15 user with DDVK hack for some time now, and my experience has been great so far. New rm-hacks repo and 3.8 native features are tempting though.

I wanted to test the upgrade while beeing able to revert to 2.15 in case I don’t like the new experience. I know the switch.sh script. My issue is the following : in 2.15, the only version I can update to seems to be 3.04, and not directly 3.8. However, if the update goes in two steps (2.15 -> 3.04, then 3.04 -> 3.8), I believe the 2.15 partition will be wiped by the two steps process, am I correct ? Then, how to upgrade to 3.8 and keeping the ability to revert back ?

Thanks for your help

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Edit : Currently, one partition is on 2.15, the other one in 3.3

  • Potjoe@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Thank you very much for your warning, which should be read carefully to any unadvised user. However, I already had experience with switching back and forth between 2.15 and 3.x. indeed it is really important to back up the files using RCU before trying this.

    Actually, this setup is doable safely as long as it is strictly for test purposes, and not a durable solution. Indeed, you’re not right when you say :

    “The first time 3.0 boots up after being installed, if it finds any .lines files from 2.x, it will convert them to a directory full of 3.x format .rm files. Once this happens, if you were to reboot into the 2.x software, it wouldn’t be able to read the pen stroke files.”

    Because file format conversion is not started when booting the device in 3.x, but when you open for the first time a file or notebook in 3.x, and convert only this file. Thus, for test purposes as I want to, you can create a notebook to use exclusively in 3.x : it will not be compatible in 2.15, but as long as you do not open any other file, you’re ok.