On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 6:01 PM Eric chirp@brunsen.com wrote:
Is there a way to run Chirp Legacy and Chirp next side by side without uninstalling/installing them?
There is at least one thing for the BaoFeng radios I use that can be set in Legacy but not in Next (I opened a ticket about it).
Thanks,
Eric
I assume that you are running CHIRP on a Windows PC. I've been doing it here since CHIRP-next was released and development of classic CHIRP was ended.
I uninstalled classic CHIRP and then installed CHIRP-next using the installer since it will continue to be updated. It can continue to be updated using the installer as new builds are released.
Then I unZIPped the win32.zip of the last build of classic CHIRP to a convenient location on my hard drive. Then I right clicked the 'chirpw.exe' file in the extracted folder and moved it to my Desktop and renamed it 'chirp legacy 20221217'. What makes this work is that CHIRP has always been a portable application. It doesn't have to be installed. I used this feature all the time to make available a older build to do testing.
Jim KC9HI