Kontakt 7 & Kontakt 8 side by side – library loading issue

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  1. solex

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    Hi,

    I’ve got bobdule’s Kontakt 8 installed and everything is working perfectly.

    Now I want to finish some older projects that were made with Kontakt 7.
    So I installed bobdule’s Kontakt 7 as well, but I can’t load the libraries anymore. I always get this message:

    “Your version of Kontakt is too old to load this file, which was saved with Unknown Tool (unsupported). Please update...”

    My questions:

    • Can Kontakt 7 and Kontakt 8 run side by side without problems?

    • Are they fully compatible when installed together?

    • Is there any working solution for this situation?
    For example, would Kontakt 7 R2R or Kontakt 7 Portable (vkDanilov) work properly next to bobdule’s Kontakt 8?

    Any advice from someone who’s running both versions would be really appreciated.

    Thanks!
     
    solex, Feb 24, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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  3. omiac

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    *@solex thread moved - please be mindful of subcategories when creating new threads. TY
     
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