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### Migrating from Earlier Versions

Mental Case 2 will automatically migrate any data it finds from earlier versions of Mental Case for Mac when it first launches. This may take a few minutes.

The data is imported, with the original data left unchanged. This means you can keep using the older version of Mental Case, if you choose, but changes you make in the older version will not appear in Mental Case 2 unless you manually export them, and import into Mental Case 2.

Mental Case 2 can import archives and library files from the original Mental Case app, so you can easily migrate data from other users to your copy of Mental Case.

There are many improvements in Mental Case 2 which are not consistent with the way data was stored in the original Mental Case app. This means some compromises have to be made when migrating your data. For example, the original Mental Case had several variations on the standard long-term learning study schedule. These have been removed from in version 2, so the obsolete schedules are converted to the standard long-term spaced-repetition algorithm.

Study scheduling is much more powerful in version 2. There are different types of schedules, for different goals, including date targeting. But Mental Case 2 is also one of very few apps that tracks each combination of note facets individually. If you are studying the German language, and you have more trouble recalling what the English word is for a given German word, you will see that combination — German as prompt and English as response — more often than the other way around.

Smaller changes in Mental Case 2 include how slide viewing time is set, and how reversibility of note facets is handled. In the original app, all notes had two facets, and you could mark a note as being reversible, so that it could also be studied with the second facet first. In version 2, you can have more than two facets. Simply reversing the facet order wouldn’t make as much sense, so instead you can choose which facets are eligible to be used as a prompt or question. For a two-faceted note, making both facets prompt candidates is equivalent to making a reversible note in the original version.

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