V6 upgrade question

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V6 upgrade question

Postby salparadise » Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:56 pm

I've been using 5.59 for quite a while. It's working great for me. I am interested in upgrading to V6, but I'm concerned about the conversion of my existing headers. I have 19+ gb of headers but only 9 gb free space on my main drive. Is it going to be able to convert the headers to the v6 format? Can I specify to use another drive? Or will I have to have an equal free space on the drive to do the conversion?

edit: another thought, can I move the headers to another drive, upgrade, and then import the headers?

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Re: V6 upgrade question

Postby itimpi » Sun Sep 11, 2011 2:57 am

salparadise wrote:edit: another thought, can I move the headers to another drive, upgrade, and then import the headers?

The process for telling Newsbin to use a different drive for its DATA folder is the same for v5 and v6. It is documented here in the User Guide.
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Re: V6 upgrade question

Postby salparadise » Sun Sep 11, 2011 7:08 am

So I guess the easiest solution is to relocate the headers before upgrade.

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Re: V6 upgrade question

Postby itimpi » Sun Sep 11, 2011 8:28 am

salparadise wrote:So I guess the easiest solution is to relocate the headers before upgrade.

You are probably right. It also sounds as it might be a good idea to get the headers off your main drive anyway.

The only other thing to think about is whether you want to take the headers forward at all as it will take a while (hours) to convert 19GB of headers. You might simply decide to start v6 by setting it to initially only download headers from the recent past, and then build up your spool going forward.
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Re: V6 upgrade question

Postby salparadise » Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:27 pm

Thanks again, I appreciate your help :)
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