I nominate AI as poster of the month for this incisive and insightful analysis.
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@Stoaty It might have been an insightful analysis but who provided the details from which that analysis was derived, i.e. wrote the original piece not fed it into the algorithm!
@LJClark I don’t believe that for one second…
But the summary was good and was coached by someone who obviously knew what they wanted to say (BHAYT) and said it well enough that an algorithm was able to capture the nub and the gist of it very well.
I just asked the app for a “summary of” – and pasted your comment into the application. No coaching involved. (A little couching, perhaps - 
Zzzzzzz)
I made the comment about coaching with respect to my original text, i.e. without that no clever summary could have been made. I was not suggesting that you coached the software in any way.
Effectively I was “hinting” at the fact that the original, written by BHAYT - me, was succinct enough and well presented enough that the resulting summary was spot on.
Of course! I just thought it was hilarious the way AI summarized your complaints. Who says AI is not good?
A couple of months ago I asked for Goals and Objectives for a community-based volunteer emergency organization. I gave examples of activities, other similar organizations, etc.
The result surprised me. It referenced local, state, and national organizations; typical tasks, applicable laws and policy, etc. All I had to do was localize it a little. Not perfect but an extremely good document for discussion and refinement. Kinda surprised me.
Indeed, and if one upgrades to v4, the V4 license becomes invalid. It looks like they worked hard so people don’t’ upgrade…
I actually used the old stuff regularly on my “road trip” computer because of higher speed.
Look like I will spare 80€ this year.
DxO licenses are “perpetual” which means that you can use your products as long as you like and they work. Upgrading means that the previous product vanishes from your shop account and that you can’t activate it - unless you kept note of the activation key that came with the purchase.
Check your mail and backup archive for such information and put it somewhere safe. You should also keep the installers as long as you feel like you might want to revert to a previous release.
PureRAW’s installer replaces the previous version (on Mac), therefore it’s a really good idea to have a working backup (one that you can actually restore things from) of the app, its installer and activation/license code.
Example of a backup:
Keeping the installers in such granularity obviously takes a lot of drive space. Getting the installers is easy: When DPR tells you to update, don’t and download the installer from your shop account…and update later. As you can see, I started with DPR3 with doing it, other installers were found in backups.
Enough rubbing in now.
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While you can continue using the older version (PR4) you are actually in violation of the EULA by doing so. Doesn’t mean they will come looking for you of course. Probably most people would use both if they found the versions provided different benefits rather than the latest being better in every way.
I do all of these things already, but hopefully your advice will be useful to someone else. 
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I found out that the downloadable PDF invoices (in My Orders and Invoices) for your purchases include the License Key along with all the other order information. I filed the two most recent invoices for each program in a documents folder in my main DXO folder.
Like you, I don’t install updated from the opening screen – I download each new installation file in its own subfolder and update from there.
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