[Qgis-user] qgis / windows upgrade from 2.6 to 2.6.1

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Claudia,

On Sun, 25. Jan 2015 at 15:55:22 +0100, Tourspur Infopost wrote:
> I recently installed qgis 2.6, which caused a series of problems, although I
> saved old 2.2 project versions als 2.6 version before continuing working.
> E.g. project files collapsed while changing legend items and where completely
> destroyed afterwards (impossible to open them again!), or every time I closed
> down a project  by "end qgis/project, the system creates minidump ending
> files.

Migrating project files is not very well tested, expecially when skipping
versions.  And it's hard to debug without the actual old project file and the
data that goes with it.  Maybe migrating from 2.2 over 2.4 to 2.6 would have
worked better, but that's evenly hard to tell without trying.


> The Minidump ending problems  should have been solved with the new 2.6.1
> version I read. Is there any chance to get an upgrade 2.6.1 file instead of
> deinstall qgis 2.6 and reinstall 2.6.1 completely new? Last time I did from
> 2.2 to 2.6 I lost all my presettings, legend files and so on.

No, but that shouldn't make a difference.  The step from 2.6 to 2.6.1 is tiny
(only fixes, no new features that often also change the project file format)
compared the step from 2.2 to 2.6.

But of course that there is no guarantee that nothing will fail in one way or
another and therefore keeping backups cannot do harm.


Jürgen

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