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Upgrading Your System
Installation and Administration Guide • 17
Upgrading Your System
To upgrade to Avid|DS 5.0, make sure you follow these procedures.
1. As a security measure, we strongly suggest that you back up your system to
protect it in case of a failure during the upgrade—see Creating a Disk
Configuration Disk on page 89, and Backing Up Your Registry on page 91.
2. Archive your projects.
Before you proceed with the upgrade, you must archive all of your current
projects—refer to Archiving Projects in the Softimage DS User’s Guide
(version 2.0 or 3.0).
3. Delete the archived projects from your video storage—refer to Deleting
Projects in the Softimage DS User’s Guide (version 2.0 or 3.0).
4. Uninstall any plug-ins—see Removing Plug-ins on page 23.
5. Uninstall Softimage DS—see Uninstalling Previous Versions on page 18.
6. On GT1 systems, check your disk space—see Disk Space Limitation on
page 20.
7. Install Avid|DS 5.0—see Installing Avid|DS on page 33.
8. Upgrade the hardware drivers—see Verifying the Installed Drivers on
page 30.
9. Restore your projects—refer to Restoring Projects on page 40 of the
Avid|DS 5.0 User’s Guide.
In order to complete the upgrade, you must have Administrator
privileges on the workstation.
It is absolutely essential that you complete this step, so that you can
still open and use any projects created with version 3.02 or earlier.