How to upgrade from pre 0.8.0 version

How to upgrade from pre 0.8.0 version

With 0.8.0 release we had to upgrade our database, which poses a little bit of the problem for old users. It requires some manual actions before you can use new version. This can be solved two ways, but before we go to any of that, first you need to make backup of your whole installation directory, which means making full copy to somewhere else.

Option 1 (recomended):

1. Start old GGC version (you need to be at 0.7.1 version), if you are not this might not work.
2. Go to Tools -> Database Maintainance-> Backup
3. Select all items and start Backup
4. There will be export file created in <GGC_DIRECTORY>\data\export with current date (copy this file somewhere safe, it contains all your GGC data
5. Rename your GGC_directory to something else
6. Install new version of GGC
7. When you start application use Tools -> Database Maintainance-> Restore, select file created in step 4.
8. Now you will need to copy some files from old install:
   • Copy "export" directory
   • Copy "print" directory (if it exist)
   • Copy "tools" directory
   • If you had any special databases installed you will have to add it to GGC_Config.properties, but you will have to use the new file, because some things about primary database changed.

Option 2:

This one is little trickier and will require that you manually export old database and create new database and then import data into that new database and then replace database in old instalation.

Detailed instruction will come later.