(Whew) ... I just completed the Studio 12 upgrade with the following report:
1) Installed Studio 12 Ultimate - launched and verified that the 11 plug-ins, SmartSound, and HFX 1&2, RTX (vol. 1 only) were present; missing previously purchased premium title content and RTX 2
2) Installed Studio 12 plug-ins - verified the new plug-ins were present and not locked
3) Used transfer wizard copy content - verified that all content except RTX2 and my old purchased premium content titles were present
After reading so many posts about waiting to uninstall 11 I should have known better, but with a few hours to kill I ...
4) Uninstalled Studio 11 Ultimate, Studio 11 Bonus DVD - Adorage and Heroglyph also removed
5) Tried to uninstall Studio 11 but was told I could not because I needed XP SP2 - I originally installed 11 with SP2 but upgraded to SP3 a few months ago so I ...
6) Uninstalled SP3, uninstalled Studio 11, re-installed SP3, and just for fun did a repair installation of Studio 12 - verified that all premium content, HFX, RTX gone, and received several error dialogs about Adorage/Heroglyph
7) Ran 12 Installer for Transfer Wizard without previous version installed - this seemed to just setup folders for previous content
8) Installed Studio 11 Bonus DVD with all content checked - now I have the Studio 11 Bonus DVD back in my programs list (I had removed it in step 4)
9) Installed Studio 12 as repair - no longer getting errors for adorage/heroglyph, and now have HFX1&2, RTX1&2 plus all my other plugins, except new proDAD vitascene filter is not there
10) Ran Studio 12 plug-in install to modify the plugins - did nothing, vitascene filter not there
11) Ran the Adorage service pack specified in the knowledgebase - still nothing
12) Ran Studio 12 plug-in install modify once to remove proDAD and again to add proDAD - now vitascene back
I now have Studio running in good order. I could have followed the advise of jb41 and avoided the first Transfer Wizard as this was rendered useless upon Studio 11 uninstall and then fixed by the second wizard run. I could have followed the advise of others (like JJN) and left Studio 11 alone until a new wizard or formal process is available ... didn't. There's no way I could have avoided the landmine of Studio requiring my original SP2 to uninstall (I've posted to a "sticky" thread for SP3).
I'm too tired to try out anything now. I've taken a quick inventory check and all seems where it should be and available (not locked). I still don't know what to do about the Studio 11 Bonus DVD installed on my computer - do I need to keep this around forever? This is the one remaining loose end ...
The best of all is that through all of the steps I took my SmartSound was never affected at all - I continuously verified it was working. My SmartSound came from Studio 9+ and I had the latest quicktracks installer for Windows XP (3.0.6.0).
Good luck to those that follow. I am now (too late, I'm afraid) firmly in the camp of leaving Studio 11 installed.
Bob