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wicked1 · April 30th, 2008, 4:40 PM

Problem:
Running SMF 1.0.5. Ran upgrade via Fantastico and received innumerable errors. Fixed some, but more popped up as I fixed them. All pages but index inaccessible. Restored from backup.
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What I have done:
Have searched SMF forums & Surmunity and have not found any info on jumping from such an old version of SMF to the current 1.1.4.

I know it was stupid to wait so long to upgrade. I am helping out a friend with their site & they didn't know. I know from experience that when you wait so long you might have to upgrade to an intermediate version and then on to the most current.

I'm wondering if it might now be best to do a fresh install of 1.1.4 in another directory & try to import the old MySql database into it, but it seems likely that there will be tables that end up missing.

Any suggestions you might have as to how I should proceed would be greatly appreciated.

April 30th, 2008, 4:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
wicked1 Registered User Fresh Surpasser Joined in Dec 2005 Lives in Indianapolis 5 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	SMF Upgrade problems Problem: Running SMF 1.0.5. Ran upgrade via Fantastico and received innumerable errors. Fixed some, but more popped up as I fixed them. All pages but index inaccessible. Restored from backup. Forum: Weirick\ - Index What I have done: Have searched SMF forums & Surmunity and have not found any info on jumping from such an old version of SMF to the current 1.1.4. I know it was stupid to wait so long to upgrade. I am helping out a friend with their site & they didn't know. I know from experience that when you wait so long you might have to upgrade to an intermediate version and then on to the most current. I'm wondering if it might now be best to do a fresh install of 1.1.4 in another directory & try to import the old MySql database into it, but it seems likely that there will be tables that end up missing. Any suggestions you might have as to how I should proceed would be greatly appreciated.