Backup: no need.
Honest question: how could upgrading be any simpler? Download the update from the SDA, purchase the upgrade, copy-paste the activation code.
When updating from Dorico 3.x to Dorico 3.5, you don’t need to download and run the sounds installer: the only new sounds included with Dorico 3.5 are the Indian drum sounds that are installed by the main Dorico application installer.
I suppose that the upgrade system is affiliated with the Steinberg system.
I don’t know how to make it simpler, but when you are used to the upgrade system on a mobile phone
it feels complicated.
Surely you will already have a backup of these, and all your other files, so that… if they get deleted, overwritten, or become corrupt, or your computer gets stolen, drenched, set on fire, or other Act of God (and there’s a lot of those around currently) … you can restore them?
I mean, you wouldn’t just have only one set of any files that you were concerned about losing, would you?
So far I’ve experienced the Dorico install working slightly different with different version updates, so reasonable to check the docs or ask IMO… Sometimes it has kept the old version and you needed to (or could) delete it when you were satisfied and ready. The latest was in place though.
Dear cellicello,
All your preferences, keyboard shortcuts etc are in ~/Library/Application support/Steinberg/Dorico x (where x is the version)
They’re duplicated when you upgrade (new app with full or half number), and left untouched when you update. But you can have a backup if you want