The release of Globodox 9 affects users in some important ways. The effect varies, depending on whether you are an existing Globodox customer using version 6.1.0.5 and above or are still evaluating the software. Let’s look at these implications…
If you’re evaluating Globodox and have not yet purchased licenses, then you can continue with your Free Trial as usual. When you purchase Globodox licenses, you will have to download and install the update setup for Version 9 and apply the registration key that we send you. In the meantime, if you want to test-use the new version, you can update your setup. (Please refer to the note at the end of this post, before you proceed.)
No – it won’t! When you upgrade to version 9, you will need to download the update setup, install it and run it. The update setup will upgrade your Globodox DB but it will not touch your data. This means you do not lose your data. As always it is a good practice to back up your Globodox DBs before any Globodox upgrade. Remember to back up the Main DB as well as all the Data DBs.
Below are the 6 easy steps to update to Version 9 :
1. Convert MS Access based DBs.
If you are using MS Access based Globodox DBs then convert them to MS SQL Express (available free), MS SQL Server or MySQL. This is because the new features in version 9 require a more robust DB. Please make sure that you convert the MainDB as well as all the Data DBs that are MS Access based
After the converting the DBs please make sure that you are able to access data and documents in Globodox.
2. Take a backup of all your DBs before upgrading to the latest version.
3. Make sure that Globodox is not running on any of the machines when running the update setup.
4. Start upgrading Globodox on the machine on which it is installed in the Server mode.
5. Once the update setup is installed on the server machine, make sure that you start Globodox once.
6. The first time you login after installing the update setup, you will need to login as the ‘superadmin’ user and open each DB with this user so that all the DBs get upgraded to the latest version.
7. Once you have done this, you will need to install the update setup on all the Client machines individually.
That’s it! Once you have carried out the steps above, you are ready to use Globodox v9 to manage your documents even more effectively than before.
You can still carry on using Globodox as usual, but in case you face an issue requiring support from our side, one of the first things we would ask you to do would be to upgrade your version to the latest one. Often, that by itself is sufficient to resolve the issue. So it is always beneficial to keep your Globodox updated to the latest version.