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

  • kg4zow@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Thanks for letting me know.

    So it sounds like the documents are converted the first time they’re opened under the new software, rather than as a batch process when the new OS first boots.

    If you had a document that worked in 2.x and didn’t open under 3.x, was it still usable after downgrading back to 2.x? If so that would seem to confirm the theory.

    • Potjoe@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Absolutely. As long as you do not open a document in 3.x, they are still usable in 2.x. I was working on several documents in 2.15, and I was still able to open them after going to 3.8 then going back to 2.15. Actually, there is a message “Unable to display the document please upgrade the software” in every notebook you opened or created in 3.x. So indeed, conversion is on a per document basis and not a batch process at boot.

      However, as you stated, it’s still a rather unsafe situation as any miss click in 3.x will definitely make your document unusable in 2.x.