uhoh, It's starting again...

oh, now isnt that interesting. i'd never looked at this like this before. you buy 2.0 and there's 7500 filters in the libary, then 3.0 comes out and there's 8500, but now 500 of the older 2.xx version get converted to 3.0 without saving the 2.xx version and the guy that bought 2.xx but not 3.xx gets screwed out of 500 filters, if he didnt download all of them before 3.xx came out. huh. never noticed this before. good point, mongoose.

for me, i dont like to override the filters i submit too much. i've done it, but i prefer not to because i've lost versions of other folk's filters which i liked for just that reason. but with a major version change, authors might indeed tend to convert and override so that their filters are up to date, so to speak, with all the newest features.

i think you make a good point here. the obvious first thing to do is download everything, always! you can always take what you dont want off and stick it on a dvd or something. but, i think the company has a responsibility here, too. perhaps there shld be a policy that when a new version comes out, ALL fitlers currently in the library can not be touched. one could submit a new copy as a new version fitler, but the older version would remain for those that bought the older version of FF. i think that would be fair.

one other thing i do is to keep all major versions on my machine. each has all the copies of the filters that existed at the time that version was still the current version. thus, version 1.xx has all the filters that were available at the time and the same with 2.xx and now 3.xx. i dont actually have all the 3.xx yet, but i will.


are you sure parquet was a 2.xx filter? i'm not showing it in my 2.xx library.

ok. i must have missed it, then. if you find it, post it here in the forum.