Cirrus-to-BC3

[Dave_L]

I just got around to upgrading from build 449 to 452 on MEPIS 7, using the .deb.

I've only done a little testing, but have found no new issues yet.

One question: After importing the settings from Cirrus, the following files in ~/.beyondcompare are no longer needed and can be deleted:

Cirrus
Cirrus_startup.sh
Cirrus.sh
context_menu/
libqtc.so.1
Preferences.xml
Sessions.xml
State.xml

Is that correct?

[chrroe]

As far as I figured out (using the *.rpm in openSuSE 10.3) you can delete anything there, but not the *.xml files. These are the personal settings for each user. They can persist in the corresponding home directory.

Correct me If I'm wrong ...

Bye
Christoph

[Dave_L]

After installing 452 and importing the Cirrus settings, the files I posted above were unmodified, but the following files (in ~/.beyondcompare) were added or modified:

BCCommands.xml
BCPreferences.xml
BCSessions.xml
BCState.xml
IsPro
registry.dat

So I assume that the old .xml files are no longer needed.

[chrroe]

You are right! I had forgotten, that the XML-Files got new names. :rolleyes:

[Jacques]

Cirrus
Cirrus_startup.sh
Cirrus.sh
context_menu/
libqtc.so.1
Preferences.xml
Sessions.xml
State.xml
Yes, these files/folders are now obsolete (libqtc.so.1 is the same but it is in a new location), BC3's xml files are all prefixed with "BC."

The rest of the files have been moved to /usr/bin/bcompare and /usr/lib/beyondcompare, if you used the rpm or deb. Of course the tarball installer let's you specify the install directory.