Upgrade Concerns

[wolfcry]

SMF Version: SMF 1.1 RC3
i have a question regarding the new upgrade to version 1.1.2


I have alot of mods, including one for gallery and an arcade with over 300 games on it. and I use tinyportal 0.9.7

My question is this.  When doing an upgrade, the upgrade overwrites everything and I lose the gallery, tinyportal, arcade and a few other installed packages not to mention any and all custom HTML, PHP and CSS work I've done.

How to I do a clean upgrade from 1.1 RC3 to 1.1.2 without losing everything?

*UPDATE* apparently, I'm getting the notion that I will lose everything, including the arcade and games, regardless what I do. Is this right?

I will have to manually upload all the games (assuming of course the arcade is even compatible with the version 1.1.2), reconstruct my PHP, HTML and CSS as well reinstall tinyportal?  will this not conflict with my current data?

Warm Regards.

[NEMINI]

yes you will have to re-do all your mods.  You'll want to grab updated versions of your mods too.

no you won't have to re-upload your games for the arcade (you're only overwritting the smf files with the new ones not wiping everything clean)

[wolfcry]

thank you Nemini for your help.


I did the upgrade and I no longer have the link to the arcade so im assuming I'll need to reinstall it through the package manager (i did make a backup incase this all failed) is the arcade compatible with this new version of SMF?

[NEMINI]

if you grab the latest version of it yes ... http://smfarcade.info

[wolfcry]

aaaah ok..thanks nemini..i was looking for that but the original site was down so I was having problems finding it.

Thank you for all of your help.

[doctoreast]

 I just upgraded; and see that it's not worth it.
Should have installed from scratch, and imported
the rest; as none of my mods work; but the tables
are there; which means that I'm going to have to
start from scratch anyway; cause none of the mods
will install without errors and manual editing/research.
de

[NEMINI]

I just upgraded; and see that it's not worth it.
Should have installed from scratch, and imported
the rest; as none of my mods work; but the tables
are there; which means that I'm going to have to
start from scratch anyway; cause none of the mods
will install without errors and manual editing/research.
de

Depends what you upgrade from and to.  There is no reason to install clean and import.  Its a waste of time.  You can just upload the entire package (except settings.php) and accomplish the same thing without having to run install then switch databases.  If your database is already up to date the installer/upgrader is not needed.
Of course you need to reinstall mods, you overwrote the old files!!  The system purposely does not remove the mods tables from the database so you don't lose your data.  you can simple reinstall the mods through the package manager and it will work (the database tables are only installed if they do not already exist).