Performing a “hard upgrade” to your copy of InBloom

A “hard upgrade” requires exporting your data out of an older copy of InBloom and into a new fresh copy.  All of your data is imported except for your serial number and your InBloom usernames and passwords.  If your computer crashed multiple times during an InBloom process or InBloom has given you warnings about your files being damaged and needing to use the “Recover” command, we STRONGLY RECOMMEND you perform a hard upgrade.  Occasionally, bug fixes may also require a hard upgrade to guarantee that InBloom runs as it should.

You can also watch a video tutorial along with the following instructions

Here are the steps to perform a hard upgrade:

1. Open your old copy of InBloom
2. Goto Main Menu > Show All > Settings > Backup Tab and change the backup type to Data Only and click Perform Backup Now
3. Close out of the old version of InBloom
4. Open your new InBloom 2.0 folder
5. Go to your old InBloom folder and goto the Backup Data folder and drag the 7-29-2009 prefixed files from the old folder and into the Backup Data folder in your new InBloom 2.0 folder
6. Open InBloom 2.0
7. Click Upgrade
8. Specify the date you did this backup (7-29 in this example)
9. Click Restore
10. Go get a cup of coffee
11. When done, enter your serial number in the Serial number field
12. Click Close InBloom

Reopen InBloom, you’re now good to go!