Very confused about upgrade path...

**handrawn** · 07 February 2018, 07:12 PM

which is ironic as handrawn has absolutely no intention of installing ver 15 himself, because it offers nothing for him

but always glad to help

@ Dahzee - if you had a current ver 12 licence when ver 15 came out, then you should still be be able to download as trial and install it... it may not update from that point if you do not renew your licence henceforth, but it should still install and activate with ver 12 key

the internal program update only appears to look at that version number [eg 12] not the latest version released - not helpful, agreed

**wizard509** · 07 February 2018, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by handrawn

which is ironic as handrawn has absolutely no intention of installing ver 15 himself, because it offers nothing for him

but always glad to help

@ Dahzee - if you had a current ver 12 licence when ver 15 came out, then you should still be be able to download as trial and install it... it may not update from that point if you do not renew your licence henceforth, but it should still install and activate with ver 12 key

the internal program update only appears to look at that version number [eg 12] not the latest version released - not helpful, agreed

Thanks handrawn, Dan's profile said he has XDP10 and I forgot to mention to him that he needed V12 to update to V15

**DanFelix** · 07 February 2018, 10:25 PM

Thanks Wizard509. I have ver 12, just haven't updated my profile.

**DanFelix** · 08 February 2018, 01:31 AM

Followup:

There appear to be two ways to upgrade from ProX12 to ProX15. Handrawn is, reluctantly, correct in going to Magix, DPX Product page, and downloading the Trial Version.

The other way is to go to the MAGIX Download Center, Enter your Ver 12 Serial Number, Select your system (32/64) and download.

Both files are the same size. File names are the same except the Trial version name has "trial_' appended to the front.

Install is without event and requires your 365 Serial Number.

The install creates a new and separate install of Ver 15, which is typical of major upgrades from Xara.

One peculiarity. The Help/About box shows a Licensee and Organization. For whatever reason, the 15 install put my Organization info in the Licensee field and left the Organization field empty. It is a quick fix requiring an adventure into the RegEdit file.

All in all, rather painless, excluding the reconstruct of the customizations in Ver 12.

If this was previous general knowledge then apologies for repeating and thanks for letting me share.

Dan

**wizard509** · 08 February 2018, 04:57 AM

Thanks for that Dan

**handrawn** · 08 February 2018, 06:43 AM

ok Dan, thanks

having new version number 15 means that it can be run as a trial by those without a current licence [ which incremental updates to 12 cannot] - something that was requested of xara which they have been kind enough to implement

AFAIK there is no difference to the downloaded versions, one is labelled 'trial' but they both the same thing

I guess we will get used to the new system on the magix servers before too long.....

**DanFelix** · 08 February 2018, 07:51 PM

Agreed. File sizes were identical so the presumption is that the files are identical. It is a rather obscured and circuitous procedure. I am up and running. One oddity. The Button Size options in the Control Bars screen seems only available in the White UI (Ctrl-Shft-Alt-S) and not the Grey UI. Not a deal breaker, but a small frayed thread. If you've not switched to the White UI then be cautioned that doing so dumps your screen customizations. Performing the keystrokes to return to the Grey UI does not reconstruct the lost customizations. My experience.

Thanks.