I volunteer at a church that uses Vista on a PC at their location. I downloaded Vista on my home PC and made a show file on the home PC. I found out that the version that the church uses is an older version than what I made the show file with at home. I’d love to save a couple hours of work, so I was wondering if there’s a way I could save the new show file in an older format so that the church PC can use it?
Church PC: Vista R4 build 1641
Home PC: Vista R4 build 1762
I’m guessing I need to make a new file from scratch and ditch the one I worked on at home (annoying but I guess it’s not the end of the world)
I’d say just go ahead an update the machine at your church if possible. The guys have done a good job with this one and I haven’t seen to many bugs. The older one will move forward so no worries about losing anything.
I would agree with this suggestion. The build numbers are so similar, that the update shouldn’t change much other than some small bug fixes.
In comparison, if you were wanting to update from R3 to R4 or something like that, I would actually suggest downgrading your PC’s version of Vista to match the church, since a major version change like that should be updated with more caution.
But yes, you will need to make sure the version numbers and build numbers match for both machines in order for the showfiles to be cross compatible.
Drew
To answer your saving question, no, it is not possible to save to an older version. Some many optimizations are made in new versions of Vista that it would be impossible to “dumb” down the show files to have them work on older builds.