Reply by Michael Brennan 5 hours ago
Hi Alan, The reason an export of your custom reports is recommended is because each new version of Sage Intelligence Reporting ships with updated versions of the out-the-box reports. While pointing your new version to an old repository will work fine, you will not receive the benefit of the new out-the-box reports.
Alternatively you could point to the new repository and import the new reports too, they can be found within the Report Update folder where SIR is installed.
With regards to Bulk export - I know the product team behind Sage Intelligence currently has a bulk export feature on their radar, but nothing within SIR 5.0.
-Michael