V17 want to return to V16

[LewisA]

I upgraded to V17 knowing it was a beta, opened some of my files and what to go back to a more stable version. The files I opened and saved, are not backward compatible. Is there anyway to go back?

 

[Ralf]

Just uninstall beta V17 and install V16 again.
With V16 you cannot open, saved files of V17.
Hopefully you have made a backup of your V 16 files.

 

[LewisA]

Nope, didn't know that. Was there a warning I missed?

 

[Lew_Merrick]

Lewis -- Beta Test is, by definition, a semi-stable pre-release version distributed to allow a wider group of people to find things that slid through unnoticed during Alpha Test. Once you have changed (upstream) versions, your only (minimal) salvation is to save the model as a dumb solid using something like a STEP output.

 

[sz0k30]

Nope, didn't know that. Was there a warning I missed?

That's standard on every computer system. None are backwards compatible.

 

[RocketNut]

Nope, didn't know that. Was there a warning I missed?

That's standard on every computer system. None are backwards compatible.

For example Windows 7 can not open Windows 8 files. The reason is the way the files are written to incorporate the newer features/functions. The perverse version does not understand what the file data is.

As sz0k30 said this has been the case from the very first computers.

 

[NateLiquidGravity]

Except in the case of Geomagic Design part/assembly/... files - unless you used a new feature or they changed format - the only difference is probably a version key hidden in the file to prevent it from being backwards compatible. I know in the past (many moons ago) when I had this trouble I was able to edit the version number inside and all worked just fine because I had not used new features and the rest of the formatting was still the same. Your results may vary.