[APBeta] AP V2 in a Dual Boot Environment

[Paul Rodman]

On Jan 9, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Gary A. Ferguson wrote:

> Doesn't matter. AP is executed as a 32-bit app under Win7 64-bit. It's
> worked great for months for me.

Yes, but is the user application data folder for the user the same for both systems? If not, then (currently) you won't be able to share everything. Some stuff can be shared by using, say, an external catalogue folder, but other stuff can't currently be shared.

Paul R.

> 
> Gary
> 
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> 
> Understood. But what about 32- vs. 64-bit versions of the same Win OS?
> 
> Alas this is outside of my limited Windows knowledge base.
> 
> Paul R.
> 
> On Jan 9, 2010, at 11:22 AM, David Crum wrote:
> 
>> When I was dual booting XP and Win 7, I had to create a separate
>> partition for Win7, which I could access in XP (copied files etc).
>> 
>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Paul Rodman <paul at ilanga.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:02 PM, John Switzer wrote:
>>> 
>>> I would like to install AP V2 in both a 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 dual
>>> boot environment and be able to share all AP files and databases between
> the
>>> two installs.  Has anyone discovered how to make this to work?
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to shed some light o this
>>> request.
>>> 
>>> I can't answer this one. Do the two systems share the same file
>>> system/partition, or are they in separate disk partitions?
>>> If they share the same file system/partition then you _might_ be able to
>>> share.
>>> Paul R.