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jopt on July 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Disappointing Surprise From Apple

The version that created the data reads it just fine. The new version just isn't backwards compatible.

ars on July 29, 2012 [–]

The correct thing to do is give a warning before the upgrade:

"This new version can not read your old data. Please export it before continuing."

Does Apple provide release notes for the OS? Did they at least document this in the upgrade/release notes?

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