# Best Practices for upgrading from RM to RM 9

**URL:** <https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/best-practices-for-upgrading-from-rm-to-rm-9/6415>\
**Category:** RootsMagic\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [February 28, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/best-practices-for-upgrading-from-rm-to-rm-9/6415 "2023-02-28T18:31:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![rwhelden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rwhelden](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/rwhelden)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/best-practices-for-upgrading-from-rm-to-rm-9/6415/1 "2023-02-28T18:31:37Z")

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Are there any suggested best practices regarding file structures to facilitate the \move up to RM9 from version 8? I have all my RM files in one folder.

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**Author:** ![MadDog](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/maddog/32/313_2.png) [@MadDog](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/MadDog)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/best-practices-for-upgrading-from-rm-to-rm-9/6415/2 "2023-02-28T18:38:30Z")

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I decided to just make a RM9 folder and copy the RM8 databases to it. Then open & convert to 9…

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**Author:** ![TomH](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/tomh/32/30_2.png) [@TomH](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/TomH)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/best-practices-for-upgrading-from-rm-to-rm-9/6415/3 "2023-02-28T20:12:22Z")

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Media files will remain where they are - the RM9 upgrade of a database does not move them. New media downloads via TreeShare will go into the _databasename_-media folder under the RM9 database file’s folder.

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**Author:** ![EdinNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba8739/32.png) [@EdinNH](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/EdinNH)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/best-practices-for-upgrading-from-rm-to-rm-9/6415/4 "2023-02-28T20:34:36Z")

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How to you convert to RM9 from RM8? When I try to import from RM9 only options are RM1-7,

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**Author:** ![MadDog](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/maddog/32/313_2.png) [@MadDog](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/MadDog)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/best-practices-for-upgrading-from-rm-to-rm-9/6415/5 "2023-02-28T20:38:13Z")

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IF you have copied files to a new folder, no need to Import, just Open the file and it will covert to 9 format (that’s why I copied files to new folder)

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**Author:** ![EdinNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba8739/32.png) [@EdinNH](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/EdinNH)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/best-practices-for-upgrading-from-rm-to-rm-9/6415/6 "2023-02-28T22:14:34Z")

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Duhhh. Of course and thank you. I did copy the files to a new folder but I forgot to change the folder settings and reacted too quickly. I could have also just browsed to the new folder.