What should I look out for when upgrading?

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Nancy Palmquist (Thu, 03 May 2007 10:18:00 -0400):

> Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> > I'm getting ready to upgrade our FP from 4.8 to 5.6.  (FPtech got
> their
> > License manager setup to serve Windows machines from a Linux server
> > running Samba.  Very simple and straightforward thanks to Ray Hoover.)
> >
> > What should I be looking out for when doing the upgrade?
> >
> > (I already noticed that I had to delete a lockfile created by 4.8 even
> > though there were no other users on the test system.)
[...]
> You can not access the files from both versions.  You are right, just
> remove all lockfiles, rebuild all indexes (very important).
>
> It has been seamless for all stuff I tested once I did those things.

You can go back and forth between 5.6 and pre-5.6 versions without
issue.  You cannot, however, use 5.6 and pre-5.6 at the same time on
any given file.

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