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Old 04-01-2020, 06:27 PM
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Default Re: Directly to PT 2020 from 12.8.3?

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Originally Posted by albee1952 View Post
As always, these 2 tricks:
#1-Always have a backup plan. Drive imaging is the bare minimum. Cloning and swapping drives is even better(so the old version and system drive don't get messed up).
I have 3 Acronis backups of the Win 7 install that has PT 12.8.3, just in case.

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#2-UN-Install the older version before installing the newer version of Pro Tools. Things used to work as an update, but moving to 2020, it seems best(or mandatory) to uninstall the old version first.
The Win 10 Pro install was a clean install, so there are no traces of PT (drive was reformatted).

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