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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Generally, the database is compatible, there haven't been any radical changes. Just to be on the safe side, though, you can use the old version of calibre on the new computer -- unless there is some new feature you really want?  |
Sorry for the late reply.
Yeah I CAN use the older version but what fun would that be ? LOL
Truthfully I haven't run into anything that I would prefer to have as a feature in the old version.
I just kept updating until the day it complained I needed to update to one of the newer, IMO worse, versions of OSX if I wanted to continue updating Calibre. Since then I've never really thought about it because I was using Snow Leopard on every system. FWIW: I'm starting to dislike Mavericks and may switch back. Other than the occasional fix for bugs, none of which I have run into so far, I haven't paid much attention to what the newer versions of calibre contained.
It wasn't until I upgraded OSX on a single machine, that I wondered if the database was compatible across versions.
I figured it would be good to start a thread. You never know if someone else will have the same question.
If someone does use a newer version to access an older database, I wonder if the system will notice a database difference and let you know when it doesn't match and needs updating ? Might be a good feature.
I've had some software simply upgrade data files and you don't realize it did it until you try access the data and find it's no longer backwards compatible.