Uninstalling Maya 4.0 for your 4.5 upgrade

[dmcgrath]

I know that my school has both 4.0 and 4.5 on the same systems. But if all your shelves and prefrences are they way you like them in 4.0, just save those prefrences somewhere and then overwrite the new ones when you install 4.5.
But I think my school didn't have to do anything special when they installed 4.5. Maya just installed 4.5 alongside 4.0. But I don't know how they did the licensing stuff to make them both work. Good luck.

[Ed Lee]

Yeah, I tried that...to have both 4.0 and 4.5 on one system. But somehow......the 4.5 interface looked like 4.0. Somethings got carried over...so, I ended up uninstalling 4.0 and 4.5 and reinstalled 4.5. Alot of hassle. I'm running Maya via a dongle -- I wonder?.....

Ed--

[alexx]

that is something maya always did:
when you install a maya to an existing one (which only works for major updates like 4.0->4.5), a new subfolder in your personal settings gets created.
the installer checks for old installed versions and if it finds some, it copies your pefs for that to the new version (which makes a lot of sense, since otherwise you would have to do all your UI-settings, scripts, hotkeys and so on again.

if you want a clean maya installation without that, you can rename your old prefs folder before installing the new version. that should do the job
(c:\documents and settings\username\my documents\maya...)

btw.. i think it always is a good idea keeping your old preferences as a backup, since it happens from time to time, that maya kills your preference files (meaning you have to delete them to stop maya from behaving strange) and then it is good if you still have old ones lying around :)

but you can usually delete the old maya version, since nothing from the prefs and no additional plugins/scripts get deleted. only the original one. so it should be safe.

cheers

alexx

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