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Upgrading from Previous Versions

When you install Reflection Desktop, it upgrades the following Open Text products:

  • Reflection for IBM 2007, 2008, 2011, and 2014

  • Reflection for UNIX and OpenVMS 2008, 2011, and 2014

  • Reflection for IBM v. 8.0 - 14.x

  • Reflection for UNIX and OpenVMS v. 8.0 - 14.x

  • Reflection for the Multi-Host Enterprise, Standard Edition v. 8.0 - 14.x

  • EXTRA! X-treme v. 8.0 - 9.3

  • Extra! X-treme v. 9.4 or greater

  • myEXTRA! Enterprise v. 7.0

  • myEXTRA! v. 7.x

  • EXTRA! Enterprise 2000

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    Reflection 2007, 2008, 2011, and 2014 are automatically removed when you upgrade. Extra! and the other Reflection products are automatically removed when you upgrade using setup.exe. If you upgrade these products by deploying the .msi file directly, you will get a message telling you to uninstall the older software first.

Supported Reflection Configuration Files

Reflection Desktop represents an upgrade over previous versions of both Reflection and Extra!. Most configuration files used with these products are supported by the new version.

For a complete list of Extra! and legacy Reflection files supported by Reflection Desktop, see Knowledge Base Article 7021411.

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