carpeperdiem Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 I am considering migrating from version 6.x desktop (running on G5/OS 10.5.8) to version 9.x running on 10.7.4 before I get too far here, the demo application (version 9.0.2) has version 8 documentation in the bundle as well as from the app. Is that an oversight, or is version 8 and version 9 mac one and the same? Doesn't give a customer a sense of "they know what they are doing now" when you see file version discrepancies in the docs. I UNDERSTAND that version 9 is a very new product. But version 6 has performed quite well for many years -- give me a good reason to upgrade? Did I simply get a bad build of the demo bundle? Thx J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomcha Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 How are you running 10.7.4 on a G5? You can't install Lion on a PPC G5 machine. And with Lion Apple removed the ability to use Rosetta to run PPC apps so you can't run Retrospect 6 on Lion. That's why you have to upgrade to Retrospect version 9.0 or run something else. I agree that the docs showing version 8 is amateur hour though. Version 9 is update from 8 so a lot of the stuff is shared but still a bit discomforting to see that they didn't bother to update the docs properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpeperdiem Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 How are you running 10.7.4 on a G5? You can't install Lion on a PPC G5 machine. And with Lion Apple removed the ability to use Rosetta to run PPC apps so you can't run Retrospect 6 on Lion. That's why you have to upgrade to Retrospect version 9.0 or run something else. I agree that the docs showing version 8 is amateur hour though. I am MIGRATING to a new machine. Obviously you can't run Lion on PPC. I am testing R9 on new machine - hoping to restore all V6 and earlier backups. An upgrade guide is needed. If Retrospect expects customers to read the forums and dig deep for this information, you will lose us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prl Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 There is a guide to the new features in Retrospect 9. It's in the file Retrospect User's Guide Addendum.pdf in the main Retrospect application folder, in the same place where you find the Retro 8 User Guide. It's still a bit amateur, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpeperdiem Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 There is a guide to the new features in Retrospect 9. It's in the file Retrospect User's Guide Addendum.pdf Um, intuitive file naming? PS -- I've been using Retro since 1991 -- I have NEVER seen an interface that was as confusing to me as version 9. I will rant on about V9's UI in another thread -- but I may not get that far... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 hoping to restore all V6 and earlier backups... You might want to share a bit more about your hopes (and dreams). Your expectations may or may not be realistic. -dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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