Yes, Ivan and James, both of your methods are preferable to the one I used,
but I had a small problem... literally. At the time I bought G7 I had a
3GB HD with no room left for a full install of G7 because I had the full
Encyclopedia Britannica installed. I set up the "G7stuff" directory with
the intention of buying a larger HD so I could do a full install to HD as
soon as Bill said G8 was about ready. Which I did.

I now have an *enormous* 20GB HD and the world is a wonderful place! <G>

At 11:00 PM 3/12/02 +0800, you wrote:

>I have Guide 7 and 8 installed in C:\guide7 and C:\guide8 and both work OK.
>Ivan
>Perth WA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Ellis
> To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [guide-user] Guide 8 Update - one nit to pick
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> Does Guide 8 _have_ to be installed in c:\guide? why not keep a copy of

7 in

> \guide7 and 8 in \guide8 then copy anything needed from 7 to 8...then

delete

> 8...
>
> just my thoughts... <shame>I still haven't got G8 yet.</shame>
>
> James
>
> Sydney
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>
> >
> Don't know why this was a problem. I kept a subdirectory c:\guide\g7stuff
> with copies of all my created *.mar files (including startup.mar and my own
> mydflt.mar) and all *.zip files I had added to G7, as well as a copy of any
> modifications to guide.dat. Before installing G8 I deleted everything in
> the root directory c:\guide, did the install, then copied everything from
> the \g7stuff subdir into the new root directory, and unzipped the *.zip
> files.
>
> It just seemed like the logical thing to do, and it worked fine for me. It
> only took 2 or 3 minutes for all that copying and unzipping.
>
> Larry
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