Updating Procedure of PyCharm
When I open PyCharm IDE, a pop-up shows up about IDE and Plugin Updates. When I click download update button on the pop-up, It leads me to following page: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/other.html?fromIDE=#version20172
The thing confusing my mind is that I have PyCharm 2017.2.3 version, and I want to start using one of 2019 versions because of some pip API problems ("Latest versions of pip starting from v10.0 changed parts of their APIs. That’s why several older versions of PyCharm,including the one you're using, became incompatible with the newer pip versions.").
If I download and set up one of 2019 versions from the page specified above, can my projects created in PyCharm 2017 version become still usable without a problem ?
Do I have to uninstall PyCharm 2017 version from my computer ?
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Hi,
You don't have to uninstall 2017, just download 2019.3 from https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/ and it can be installed together with 2017.
You can work on the same projects, but I would recommend deleting the .idea folder from the project root and let PyCharm 2019 recreate it for you, this way you will avoid potential problems with project settings incompatibility (you will need to reconfigure some project settings, e.g. run configurations).