Upgrade, and configuration

[tracknut]

Somewhere I screwed up something during the upgrade to 6.3.24. I just installed 6.3.23 a week or so ago, so am new to the program (it's fantastic, by the way!). I had everything set up how I wanted it, then the 6.3.24 upgrade seemed to treat me as a brand new customer. I had a feeling what might happen, and it did. All my configurations were lost, and I ended up with a brand new installation. Fortunately I had a copy of my calendar locally, but I had to rebuild the categories, etc.

So I actually have two questions:

1) Did I miss something in the install process that asked "is this an upgrade, would you like to maintain all your settings?"

2) I normally keep all my web pages locally, and push them to the server. But I haven't been able to install the calendar to my local machine. Assuming I install it on my server, then download the /calendar directory onto my PC, will I have accomplished what I need? And if I then use the Setup Manager to make some config changes, if I upload that calendar directory again (say FrontPage pushes my whole web site up to the server), will I wipe out those config changes? Basically I'm looking for what is the expected workflow on this such that I can keep a local copy of the calendar info in case of a server crash.

Thanks, and thanks again for a great program.
Dave
www.borzoi.org

[Brian]

If you followed the Upgrade instructions, it would have told you what to back up and restore in order to keep all of your settings and customizations.

1) This is not in the install process. Assuming you're using the auto-installer, you should have followed the upgrade directions in the instructions (see my signature below for a link).

2) FrontPage nor Dreamweaver will upload the calendar PHP files to your server. It's best to upload them manually via FTP or using the auto-installer.

[tracknut]

If you followed the Upgrade instructions, it would have told you what to back up and restore in order to keep all of your settings and customizations.
Ah, ok. The install crashed IE7 when I brought up the instructions. So I just went ahead and clicked "next" a few times on the installer. So you're right, I didn't read the instructions.


2) FrontPage nor Dreamweaver will upload the calendar PHP files to your server. It's best to upload them manually via FTP or using the auto-installer.
I'm not sure why they wouldn't. They upload other php files and such... But are you saying that if I push all the files in the calendar directory down to the server with FTP, I will wipe out the settings that were made in the Setup Manager? Or that I can do that, it will not affect thost settings?

Thanks
Dave

[Brian]

I'm not sure why they wouldn't. They upload other php files and such... But are you saying that if I push all the files in the calendar directory down to the server with FTP, I will wipe out the settings that were made in the Setup Manager? Or that I can do that, it will not affect thost settings?

They will not upload the files correctly because they will not upload them in binary mode. Therefore, they will corrupt the files when uploaded.

Again, if you follow the upgrade instructions and back up the specified files, you can upload the files any way you wish, then restore the files containing your custom information. :)