Clean install for upgrade?

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2013/10/08 23:55:20 (permalink)

Clean install for upgrade?

This is  my next question, sorry if anyone feels I'm flooding the forum, but I wanted to keep them separate.
As I said on another topic, I just upgraded from X2 to X3. Unchecked everything I knew was already installed in X2 and only needed the first disk to do it.
I think I expected it to overwrite X2 where necessary and leave me with just it. What it did was install the new version alongside of X2. So my question is simply should I have unistalled X2a completely (making sure to save my project files first)?
(Just for better organization and minimalization sake.) 
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    Re: Clean install for upgrade? 2013/10/09 00:00:19 (permalink)
    SONAR never overwrites previous versions of the DAW. It will overwrite/update plug-ins and utilities. The non-shared parts use up less than 200MB. You can uninstall X2 if you wish but V-Vocal, R-Mix and other plug-ins that are not part of X3 will be removed too. Of course, you can get them back by performing an advanced install of X2.
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    Re: Clean install for upgrade? 2013/10/09 00:06:49 (permalink)
    If you have the room, I recommend you install X3 and keep X2a installed as well. They run independently, and you may find need to refer back to X2a at some point.
     
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    Re: Clean install for upgrade? 2013/10/09 15:42:56 (permalink)
    Have you ever used one as a rewire into the other?
    (If that even has any use or advantages...)
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