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{{man warn|Warning:|I highly recommend that you do not use your usual environment for developing GRAMPS. Definitely do '''not''' work on your main GRAMPS family tree. Doing so may result in data loss in your GRAMPS Family Tree !}}
If you run your development version of GRAMPS as the usual user, it will show all your usual GRAMPS family trees, so loading one by mistake is possible and a bug may result in losing productive data. To prevent this, you could use a [[GRAMPSHOME ]] environment variable to create a separate folder for productive data, see [[Run GRAMPS from a portable drive]] for more information.
Here are some options you may choose to prevent this. If you have enough resources, I recommend using VirtualBox.