I'm using a LiveUSB Flash Card with 9.0.5, with a SaveFile on an External HDD ― and I want to change the LiveUSB to 9.5.
Can I use the SaveFile created with FossaPup64 9.0.5 with version 9.5?
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Re: Can I use the SaveFile created with FossaPup64 9.0.5 with version 9.5?
Maybe, but
Upgrading is your opportunity to obtain a well running operating system you'll probably use for a long time. I don't recommend rushing now.
The contents of your SaveFile have priority over the contents of your 'core/base' file, i.e. fossapup64_9.5.sfs. 9.5 brings many improvements. If you've 'captured' obsolete or now broken systems in your 9.0.5's SaveFile using the old SaveFile will hobble your new Puppy. But if the contents of your SaveFile are only applications, that usually would be OK. The problem is you really can't know if that's all you preserved. When you execute a Save EVERYTHING THEN IN RAM is written to the SaveFile/Folder (except some files Puppy treats as temporary).
At a minimum, you should open Menu>Setup>Puppy Package Manager, Click the Uninstall button, then take a Screenshot you can use as a reference to compare the applications you installed with those 9.5 now includes.
After comparing that to what 9.5 now has, uninstall any you no longer will need and execute a Save. After that preparation, you may find that 9.5 can't use the old SaveFile anyway.
Here's what I recommend. Using your screenshot as reference see how difficult it would be to rebuild a SaveFile from scratch. Are the applications easily available: obtained from PPM or downloaded from a still available link? While you looking, are there newer versions of that application? If not, and you still want to use some application, download and use gnewpet, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 211#p73211 It will make a pet of any application you installed into 9.0.5 --and just the files of that pet, not anything you might have inadvertently Saved when, after installing it, you executed a Save.
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