How do I upgrade from Growl 1.2.2 to the App Store version?

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I am looking for a information on if there is anything in particular that I have to do when upgrading to the App Store version. Do I have to uninstall my existing Growl? Do I have to convert any preferences, themes etc? Is the App Store version backwards compatible with the 1.2.2?

I tried to find this information on the web site, but was not successful.

Can somebody fill me in or post a link to information?

Thanks!

[Josh]

In theory, you shouldn't have to do anything.

In reality, some people have noticed some issues to do with the way the App Store installs things that's causing trouble.
The safe way would be to uninstall Growl 1.2 using the uninstaller (available here: http://www.growl.info/downloads) and then install 1.3 from the App Store. This will not lose any of your settings, they should all stay intact :)

As for compatibility, there are some applications who's support of growl has broken between 1.2 and 1.3. Some, because they are using a really old version of the growl framework (the code that lets them support growl). Others for slightly different reasons. I expect the actively maintained apps will put out fixes in the not-too distant future. The majority, I would say, do still work just fine.

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[Peter Hosey]

On Oct 4, 2011, at 05:36:12, Josh wrote:
> The safe way would be to uninstall Growl 1.2 using the uninstaller (available here: http://www.growl.info/downloads) and then install 1.3 from the App Store.

Important point: Uninstall 1.2.2, THEN install 1.3.

If you install 1.3 and then uninstall 1.2.2, the first step will put 1.3 inside the 1.2.2 prefpane (a Mac App Store bug) and the second step will delete both of them.

So uninstall 1.2.2 first, before you install 1.3.

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Thanks Josh and Peter!