So, if you are on any of those platforms and a flexible setup interests you, I still encourage you to continue reading. You can do similar setups on Linux and Mac as well. In my opinion though, the benefits far outweigh the downsides.

After that we will discuss some potential problems, we might run into and how those can be dealt with. Then we will cover how we manage different tasks such as installing a new version of Blender into the setup, removing or in-place upgrading etc. But once it is done, it is a simple system to use with few extra moving parts.

There is some initial set up and some things we need to know. In this article, I will share the system I use to manage multiple versions. How can we share settings and add-ons between different portable installations? How can we update and add new versions that inherit our settings? But what if we need a way to manage these installs? This is the basics of having multiple versions of Blender installed alongside each other.

This way all files will be contained inside the program folder and we can have as many parallel installs as we need without them interfering with each other. zip version and add a folder called config inside the version number folder. To install multiple versions of Blender, we can use the portable. But since there are so many releases for different needs and with new features coming all the time, the need for a solution to install and manage multiple versions of Blender increase. There is no official way or launcher that allow us to install and manage multiple versions of Blender at once.

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