Trial Period for V6? Rolling back?

[jsonnabend]

I think I'm going to make the jump to V6, but it needs to support (I mean really support) FSE/VMR9 on my system. I have two questions:

1. Is there a trial period for V6 if I'm a registered user of V5.x?

2. If V6 doesn't work for me, assuming I have complete copies of my Sage V5 directories (server and clients), how easy is rolling back?

TIA

- Jeff

[Opus4]

The trial period has been reset, and the info for How to install a new version of SageTV still applies in terms of the ability to revert to a previous version.

- Andy

[jsonnabend]

Thanks for the quick reply. The server is "SageTV Media Center (V6 for Windows)"?

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by Opus4

The trial period has been reset, and the info for How to install a new version of SageTV still applies in terms of the ability to revert to a previous version.

Not sure if the posted link covers this, but one thing that's worth noting is that the V6 wiz.bin is not compatible with V5, so if you run V6 for a while and then revert back to V5 you will have to go back to you old wiz.bin...

Dirk

[ke6guj]

yes, that is the main program you need.

And if you are a registered V5 user, you get a free upgrade to V6, no charge. You just have to have purchased a V5 license, not an earlier one and taken advantage of Sage's free upgrades to V5.

There was an issue with V5 licenses issued by PcAlchemy, so if you have one of them and the upgrade doesn't work, then contact PCAlchemy for support.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Not sure if the posted link covers this, but one thing that's worth noting is that the V6 wiz.bin is not compatible with V5, so if you run V6 for a while and then revert back to V5 you will have to go back to you old wiz.bin...

It doesn't specifically say that, but restoring _all_ the old files is part of the reverting process, so it would be covered. I would always treat wiz.bin and the properties files as not being backward compatible.

- Andy