Needs a documented way to downgrade on MacOS about rancher-desktop HOT 8 OPEN

There is actually a FAQ entry about downgrade that says to do uninstall and install but that doesn't work https://docs.rancherdesktop.io/faq/#q-how-can-i-downgrade-rancher-desktop-to-a-non-current-older-release-version

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Are you sure you did a factory reset before you downgraded? You can still do the reset afterwards and restart Rancher Desktop.

It is not possible to downgrade Rancher Desktop without deleting the old VM in between.

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Also another documentation page is wrong: https://docs.rancherdesktop.io/1.13/references/rdctl-command-reference#rdctl-start

Example:

rdctl start --container-runtime dockerd -- kubernetes-version 1.19.3

Error: unknown flag: --container-runtime
Usage:
  rdctl start [flags]

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Also another documentation page is wrong

Thanks!

Other issues I just noticed:

• the rdctl reference has not been updated for the new release
• the macOS uninstall instructions don't recommend doing a factory reset, so leave the VM behind

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Thanks, reset indeed helped.

Would be nice if it was possible to quickly restart without losing all the configuration though.

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Would be nice if it was possible to quickly restart without losing all the configuration though.

As I mentioned before, the problem is that there is no way to downgrade the Linux VM to an older version; there is some extra code in Rancher Desktop to support upgrades, but it doesn't work in the other direction.

Please leave this issue open for the doc problems.

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But factory reset will also wipe all the other Rancher Desktop settings, right?
Is there a way to only wipe the vm keeping the settings?

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But factory reset will also wipe all the other Rancher Desktop settings, right? Is there a way to only wipe the vm keeping the settings?

In general there isn't, as the settings schema also changes between versions. The newer release include migrations from older schemas, but obviously older Rancher Desktop version won't know how to migrate from a new schema that was not known at the time the version was released.

Theoretically you could do this manually, but it would be error-prone, and there are not that many settings anyways.

Normally you should not need to downgrade to an older version. One thing you could do (with foresight) is to take a snapshot before you upgrade. Then when you want to downgrade again, you can restore to that snapshot, as it will be untouched. But you cannot downgrade a VM/settings once they have been migrated to the new version.

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