@Inferno (Inferno) posted a new topic, subject "Blender 2.5 Worry About Downloading". It read:

   Hey everyone, I'm a little worried about downloading the new blender 2.5. Like at the moment I'm using Blender 2.49, will anything get damaged in the transfer, and is there a way to make all the button combos in the 2.49 way, I mean I've heard they moved the space button effect, can I move it back? Any help would be great, and any comments about the differences between the two would be great. Like what changes they have made, tons of stuff like that.  
    Thanks  
    Inferno

To which @Hendore (Hendore) replied

    There isn't an installer (for windows) so you can just download the Alpha build, extract it anywhere you want and run it from there without worrying about it modifying any previous versions

To which @Inferno (Inferno) replied

    Ok, will I be able to open old blend files in it from there? And where would be a good place to save, should I make up a new place?

After which, @Hendore (Hendore) added

    Wherever's best for you I suppose  I just extracted it to My Documents then created a shortcut on my desktop to the blender.exe. Some older .blend files should open (I've only tried a few). I'm guessing it will depend on what the .blend file contains as some features from previous versions are yet to be implemented in this alpha release.

To which @Inferno (Inferno) replied

    Ok, thanks, I'll try it out in a bit.

To which @jesterKing (jesterKing) replied

    Just make sure you don't save over your old files with this, if you need to work on them with Blender 2.49 still.
    
    /Nathan

After which, @tyrant_monkey (tyrant monkey) added

    Inferno":
    
    > Hey everyone, I'm a little worried about downloading the new blender 2.5. Like at the moment I'm using Blender 2.49, will anything get damaged in the transfer, and is there a way to make all the button combos in the 2.49 way, I mean I've heard they moved the space button effect, can I move it back? Any help would be great, and any comments about the differences between the two would be great. Like what changes they have made, tons of stuff like that.  
    >  Thanks  
    >  Inferno
    
    just to shade some light on the add menu in 2.49 the are two ways you can call up the add menu using the spacebar or shift + a; all that has happened in 2.50 is that search is now mapped to the space bar you can still call up the add menu using shift + a just like you did in 2.49. not a lot of people now about the shift + a hotkey combo

So @Shatter (Shatter) replied

    If you can't remember the Shift+A hotkey, just type “add (privative name)” when the search pops up


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