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  • Running two versions of FCP alongside each other

    Posted by Mark Hammett on April 20, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    I’m currently running v.5 and I want to put v.6 on my system, not by doing an upgrade but by putting v.6 in a different place on my drive. I want to run v.6 seperately. Can I do this? Are there any problems that I’m likely to encounter?

    Jeremy Garchow replied 16 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Jeremy Garchow

    April 20, 2010 at 5:55 pm

    Yes. You should create a new partition or another drive with a new OS and FCP.

    Jeremy

  • Michael Sacci

    April 20, 2010 at 5:56 pm

    don’t even thing about it, put it on a separate HD and reboot to the version you want.

  • Mark Hammett

    April 20, 2010 at 7:07 pm

    Ok, that sounds tricky. Would it be better to just install v.6 over the top of v.5? Will it just write over it? Will all my old sequences etc. still work OK? I’m only concerned because it’s not an ‘upgrade’ as such. It’s a new full version.

  • Jeremy Garchow

    April 20, 2010 at 7:11 pm

    It’s best to start clean.

  • Mark Hammett

    April 20, 2010 at 7:54 pm

    So should I delete the version 5 files from my applications folder and then install v.6? What’s the best way to go about it?

  • Jeremy Garchow

    April 20, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    New drive, new OS, new FCP.

    if that’s out of the question, the use FCS remover and then install FCS2.

    https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcs_remover.htm

    Jeremy

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