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ThreeDee Lost in Space Posts: 1672 Filters: 112	I occurred to me to try this, and it worked, at least in the one case I did it... Editing the major and minor version numbers in the ffxml file allowed me to open a version 8 filter in version 7. Only took me 11 years to discover.
	Posted: April 22, 2019 5:04 am	Details E-Mail
GMM Moderator Filter Forge, Inc Posts: 3491	Heh, you are lucky not to run into any kinds of problems with that. A part of this luck can be attributed to the fact we didn't update any components in version 8. But if you attempted to do that with FF 5 and 6.0-compatible filter you'd likely see a hard crash. By 'hard' I mean 'crash every time on start until you remove the ffxml file from the storage.'
	Posted: April 22, 2019 8:24 am	Details E-Mail
ThreeDee Lost in Space Posts: 1672 Filters: 112	In all likelihood I've tried a long time ago with some earlier version just to find out that it didn't work, so I was surprised to see that it worked this time. I figured it might be because no major component changed between those two versions. Or no new component was used in that particular filter.
	Posted: April 22, 2019 11:18 am	Details E-Mail

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