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The open-sourced version of the award-winning Qiqqa research management tool for Windows
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Can someone please just tell which version to install #389

Open ackern opened 2 years ago

ackern commented 2 years ago

The pages and pages information on the dozens of versions is overwhelming and after half and hour of study I still have no idea which version to install. Can someone please tell me? All I see is long lists of unpublished pre-releases and paragraph after paragraph discussing bug after bug after bug.. Is Qiqqa only intended for professional full-time computer programmers? All I want is a citation manager like Zotero or Endnote.

artdijk commented 1 year ago

V82.0.7555.31312 is most stable for me. Qiqqa research assistant

GerHobbelt commented 1 year ago

latest v82 release is generally the most stable for users.

The v83 series of releases are addressing specific failures for (very) large libraries, but suffer from other issues alongside.

SimonDedman commented 1 year ago

I'm finding the tradeoff is: v83s: textify & OCR work, crashes with this issue. v82: doesn't crash, doesn't OCR or textify well.

Thus I'm minded to switch back to v82 now I've cleared my OCR/textify backlog, then install v83 when I build up enough backlog to need to do it again.

EdLSU commented 1 year ago

Do the later versions provide real improvements with functionality over 80s? I moved back to it because of the bugs in later versions.

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I'm finding the tradeoff is: v83s: textify & OCR work, crashes with this https://github.com/jimmejardine/qiqqa-open-source/issues/308 issue. v82: doesn't crash, doesn't OCR or textify well.

Thus I'm minded to switch back to v82 now I've cleared my OCR/textify backlog, then install v83 when I build up enough backlog to need to do it again.

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SimonDedman commented 1 year ago

v83s OCR & textify works well whereas v82 doesn't. They may work in v80s though?

EdLSU commented 1 year ago

Both work in 80s.

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v83s OCR & textify works well whereas v82 doesn't. They may work in v80s though?

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SimonDedman commented 1 year ago

Hmmm, are you sure about v80s? Looks like they jumped from 79 to 82...

EdLSU commented 1 year ago

It's what I have run on multiple computers for years. Every time I upgrade, I eventually move back. It's stable on big libraries

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Hmmm, are you sure about v80s? Looks like they jumped from 79 to 82 https://github.com/GerHobbelt/qiqqa-open-source/releases?page=2...

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SimonDedman commented 1 year ago

Maybe I'm being dumb but do you have a link to v80s? It doesn't appear to ever have existed according to the list of releases...

GerHobbelt commented 1 year ago

v80 setup exe should be available for download at the bottom of this page: https://github.com/jimmejardine/qiqqa-open-source/releases/tag/v80

(there's also a v81, but that was an intermediate release in many ways)

for folks who want to revert | try the commercial releases v79 and older, those should also be available still (despite shutdown of qiqqa.com) as I once collected them in the repo. Have to dig up where I left those though....

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Maybe I'm being dumb but do you have a link to v80s? It doesn't appear to ever have existed according to the list of releases...

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GerHobbelt commented 1 year ago

old commercial releases are stored in the repository itself, here: https://github.com/jimmejardine/qiqqa-open-source/tree/master/Qiqqa-Software-Installer-Releases

those are not registered as 'releases' at GitHub so it'll take a few more clicks to download any of those from the given overview url.

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v80 setup exe should be available for download at the bottom of this page: https://github.com/jimmejardine/qiqqa-open-source/releases/tag/v80

(there's also a v81, but that was an intermediate release in many ways)

for folks who want to revert | try the commercial releases v79 and older, those should also be available still (despite shutdown of qiqqa.com) as I once collected them in the repo. Have to dig up where I left those though....

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Maybe I'm being dumb but do you have a link to v80s? It doesn't appear to ever have existed according to the list of releases...

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SimonDedman commented 1 year ago

top man, thanks mate.

EdLSU commented 1 year ago

When you download 80 and install it, the program shows version 80s.

Ed

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