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18plt
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‎03-19-2012 11:30 PM

How do I upgrade?

I am currently running 3.0 on my Mac with OS X 10.6.8  Using Windows 7 and Quickbooks Pro 2011. Want to upgrade to Lion and 4.x. Do I upgrade to 4 first or Lion first? Do I have to reinstall Windows 7 and Quickbooks? How do I make sure my Quickbooks entries are transferred to the upgraded system? Do I sound desperate? I am! All help appreciated.

Latest: the upgrade went well for few months. A few days ago another update came out and while installing, I got a black screen. Sent a request for help to th VMWARE Tech team and got a phone call about 60 seconds after I submitted. Pretty amazing. He spent over three hours helping reinstall and getting the system working -mostly - again. I had to reinstall Quickbooks and TurboTax, and that's where something quirky happened. It took a lot of blind efforts trying different things because the programs would not load. I loaded the disk and nothing would happen. Finally, I figured out that for some reason I now have to turn on and off the cd/DVD player so the DVD will install and/or eject. Never had to do that before. Click on the VMware tab, from the drop down, click on add cd/DVD and the program loads when you put in the program disk. When done, click on the VMware tab, from the drop down, click on disconnect cd/DVD and the program disk can now be ejected. Oops, sorry, click on the Virtual Machine tab.

I got a follow up call from the Tech to make sure everything was working. While I would have preferred to not have any problems with this, I was greatly impressed by the support I received. These days good service is hard to come by, but VMware stepped up.

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koi
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‎03-19-2012 11:59 PM

Do I upgrade to 4 first or Lion first?

It shouldn't matter. Just make sure the virtual machine is shut down (not suspended) before you upgrade to Fusion 4.

Do I have to reinstall Windows 7 and Quickbooks?

You should not have to, Fusion 4 should open the VM just fine. Make a backup of the virtual machine first to be safe.

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18plt
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‎03-21-2012 06:33 AM

Thanks for the feedback! I will give it a shot.

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18plt
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‎03-24-2012 10:28 AM

Progress to date: 4.0 successfully installed, upgraded immediately to 4.1.1. No need to reinstall Windows or Quickbooks and all data is still there (I did backup to disk just in case). Next step: Lion install.

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WoodyZ
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‎03-24-2012 11:41 AM

18plt wrote: Progress to date: 4.0 successfully installed, upgraded immediately to 4.1.1.

I'm writing this more so for anyone else who reads this as it's to late for you at this moment...

When upgrading to a new major release one does not have to first install the .0 release and upgrade from there!  Always download the latest release of the target version directly from VMware's website and install the latest and there is no need whatsoever to install a previous point release of the target version.

In other words lets say one has any VMware Fusion 2.x or VMware Fusion 3.x installed and wants to upgrade to VMware Fusion 4... Then at the present time one would download VMware Fusion 4.1.1 while skipping all other VMware Fusion 4.x releases and directly install only that one! Smiley Happy  There is absolutely no requirement to install the first or any in between releases of a given version prior to lastly installing the latest.  Always directly install the latest available release for the version being installed.

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