Re: Re: Using Mathematica 5.2 and 7.01 with separate
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- Subject: [mg103476] Re: [mg103460] Re: [mg103456] Using Mathematica 5.2 and 7.01 with separate
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:51:42 -0400 (EDT)
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Evaluate: SetOptions[$FrontEnd, VersionedPreferences -> True] (or the VersionedPreferences option can also be set from the option inspector). Without specifics, I can't comment on the exact problems you've been having. But the above setting forces the preferences file to split into a different file for every major version. Best to set this in v7, which should leave 5.2 with a clean set of preferences. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc. On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:24:05 -0400 (EDT), A. B. wrote: > > > Despite what everybody says, including people from Wolfram, it is not > possible to have two versions of Mathematica installed at the same time > without taking special precautions beforehand. I tried (on Mac) but it is > too cumbersome and I have given up. > > >> Hello, >> I have both installed Mathematica v.5.2 and 7.01 and I would like to >> use each of them with separate setting. At this moment when I change >> any option in Options Inspector of Mathematica 7 it also affects >> Mathematica 5.2 and leads to error messages when I launch v.5.2. Why >> this happens? And how to force each version to use its own separate >> settings?