Announcing MinimServer 2

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You can only have one installation of the MinimServer package on a QNAP NAS. This has always been the case. Installing MinimServer 2 replaces MinimServer 0.8.5 and reverting to MinimServer 0.8.5 would replace MinimServer 2.

On a QNAP NAS, MinimServer 2 uses a different location for configuration settings than MinimServer 0.8.5. The MinimServer 2 installer automatically copies your existing 0.8.5 configuration settings to this new location. Any property settings from your 0.8.5 configuration that are not available in Starter Edition are saved in your default profile and will be enabled when you activate either a trial license or a full license.

For example, you can change the content directory in Starter Edition, so your 0.8.5 setting for the contentDir property will be migrated automatically to MinimServer 2. You cannot add index tags in Starter Edition, so any changes you have made in 0.8.5 to the indexTags property will not become visible and available in MinimServer 2 until you activate a trial license or a full license.

Your 0.8.5 configuration is not deleted, so if you subsequently install MinimServer 0.8.5 over MinimServer 2, you will revert to the same configuration that you had when you last used MinimServer 0.8.5. Any property changes you have made in MinimServer 2 will not be migrated back to 0.8.5.

If you then install MinimServer 2 again over 0.8.5, your previous MinimServer 2 configuration will be used. After the initial installation of MinimServer 2, your MinimServer 0.8.5 and MinimServer 2 configurations are maintained in parallel and any changes to one of these do not affect the other.

The above applies no matter what version of MinimServer 2 you are using when you revert to 0.8.5 (Starter Edition, trial version, full version).

Important note: the above applies specifically to a QNAP NAS.