opening ver 1.7 lost collection

[daniel clark]

went to open and use ver 1.7 and collection was lost ,,,had to open 2.1 ,,collection not usable there either,,had to create new collection,,,little bit of work in front of me now any particuliar reason for this to happen,,as to avoid others having this occurer to them

[Blackbrook]

I think I read something like this, yes. Different format of collections in 1.7 and 2.1, opened with one not being able to open it with the other version. Sorry, Dan!

[daniel clark]

well the perplexing senerio is that if trying to open a collection that originaly started in cross1.25,,i guess, modified by all ver since and fianly modified by 2.1 ,,should it not still be intack to use in 2.1,,,,,so in order to open a version earlier than 2.0 ,,i will need to set up a colection just for that version,, and how do you stop it from trying to open a collection from 2.1 and negating that collection for use

[daniel clark]

revised statment ,, collection not lost ,,,Cross couldnt open the collection,or nothing is in it ,,when shifted back too 2.1 it picked the wrong collection ,created collection #2 after ,, the collection 0 is still there , not shure what went on ,,1400 tracks after anylising and sorting ,,went back too see if i could figure what went on

[ddjj]

I had the same problem. I wanted to keep usin 1.7...but file was useless after loadin with 2.1....Im not sure if there was a warning...i like usin 1.7 for various reasons... Not happy.

Ddjj

[daniel clark]

maybe a work around can be found,, kept all (most )of the different ver ,to use as a bench mark for system /set up operating ,,would like to be able to use 1.7 again due to my system not keeping up with Cross in its new form poor old tired 2.3 amd dual core breathing hard and gasping

[hemskoc]

:eek: went to open and use ver 1.7 and collection was lost ,,,had to open 2.1 ,,collection not usable there either,,had to create new collection,,,little bit of work in front of me now any particuliar reason for this to happen,,as to avoid others having this occurer to them

Its that damned OS called vista, Dan
Nah im with Steve on this one...i recall somewhere seeing warning with incompatability issues w 1.7 > 2.0 databases..also before from previous 1.3 > 1.5 editions.
Just remember you can never have to many 'backups'!
Cheers

[daniel clark]

yes two fold problems ,,vista and duelcore 2.3,,got everthing sorted back now,,,,looking at senerios for upgradeing to os7 and a quad core ,, looking at amd since anything from intel is sandy bridge in my price range,, a amd fx 4100 ,MB/CPU,FAN,about $200,,,change o/s about $150

[Support@MixVibes]

Already told ya guys, stop rolling back with collection.
When you need to test a new version, do it on a copy of your collection.

The reason is that for each version there are slight changes (samplers, trees, and so on). All these new database columns/tables are not handled by older version.
So we are trying to do a proper compatibility when upgrading, but downgrading will never be a straight process.

What you can do is give the version number to your collection :
- open Cross 1.7
- make a collection : music_1.7
- put all your track inside
- quit to save
- re-open Cross 1.7
- save as : music_2.1
- open Cross 2.1

If you load music_1.7 into Cross 2.1 you'll break it for Cross 1.7, so don't !
Each software version have to use its own database version.

Unfortunately, Cross always reload the latest used one (settings stored), so beware when switching back and forth to create a new empty one before switching.

[ddjj]

To Support:

Perhaps you can have the instructions that you have just relayed to us in the download section of each upgrade so that this does not happen to many people. To be honest with you, this is the first I have read about how the collections operate!

Thanks
DDJJ