Backward compatible?

[Bob D]

So I'm sitting around archiving some PE2 projects tonight. I'm archiving them to a folder and burning them on a DVD. These aren't a total loss if the disc goes bad, but I got to thinking. I wonder if when I get around to version 4 (I don't have version 3) if these projects will be able to be restored and work in newer releases.

I may be more confident that Adobe will keep this in mind in subsequent releases if I knew it worked from PE2 to PE3. Has anyone tried taking an archived project from PE2 and bring it back to life in PE3?

[Chuck Engels]

It is the same as when we went from version 1 to version 2, you can open the project in the next version but if you don't save a copy you can never go back again. Version 3 does open version 2 projects but once they are saved you can never open them in version 2 again unless you made a copy.

This has been the pattern for the 3 releases so far, I would expect it to stay that way but you never know for sure. It will most likely depend on how big of changes they make in the next version.

[Steve Grisetti]

Actually, Chuck, if I remember right, you can't open version 1 files with version 2 without corrupting the file.

But you can open version 2 files with version 3 (but then you can't open them in version 2 anymore, as you said).

[Chuck Engels]

No, you can open version 1 files in version 2 but you can't use them in version 1 again. I don't know if you can open version 1 files in version 3 though.

[Bob D]

After your initial response, it dawned on me that there is nothing really special about the archive option. So as long as the next version can open a previous version, it is good! If it is important to save it as a new project if you want to keep the previous version though.