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Re: switching between versions 7 and 8

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• Subject: [mg114903] Re: switching between versions 7 and 8
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:35:30 -0500 (EST)
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• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

It's different because installation on the Mac is in general just so 
much more straightforward!  (And I say this mainly as a Windows/PC 
user.)  On the Mac, once you have the image file, you open it and see a 
graphic in which you can just drag the icon for the new version into an 
icon for the Applications folder. And when you do that and already have 
a Mathematica folder within the Applications folder, it asks if you want 
to replace it.

What I don't know, as a newly-returned Mac user, is what you do then if 
you want to keep both versions. Evidently some renaming of folders is 
involved, but beyond that I have no idea, as installing also "magically" 
puts a Mathematica folder inside the Library folder, too.

On 12/21/2010 12:16 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 12/19/2010 9:39 PM, richard i pelletier wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> i have seen, from a couple of posts over the years, that this is obvious
>> and elementary to many of you, but i could really use a little
>> hand-holding. (I have never seen an answer that i could put into action.)
>>
>> can someone please tell me _exactly_ how to set up two versions of
>> mathematica so that i can run either one -- not simultaneously --,
>> without having to go change the names of folders?
>>
>> i am running version 7 on mac OS 10.6.5 -- i.e. snow leopard. i have
>> downloaded version 8. all i want is to be able to run version 8, quit
>> it, and then run version 7, quit it, and then run version 8, etc.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> rip
>>
>
> I do not have a mac, but FYI, on windows, when I installed
> V8, it asked if I want to remove V7, I said NO. So now I have
> V7 and V8 installed.
>
> To run any one, I simply double click on the icon. No problem.
>
> I am surprised it is different on the mac.
>
> --Nasser
>

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  • Re: switching between versions 7 and 8
    • From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>