Safe upgrade procedures?

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arothman Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 28 April 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 24	Post Options Post Reply Quote arothman Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Safe upgrade procedures? Posted: 12 February 2007 at 3:24pm
	I know there have been a couple of similar questions, but I wanted to be sure. :) I've got 8.03 and I want to go up to the latest. If I have a registered copy of the forum running, does the upgrade require me to 're-license' or does the registration info stay in place when I apply the new version? Also, is there a 'patch list' that says exactly which .asp files and so forth have actually been altered in the new release so I don't overwrite the whole folder unecessarily? I have manually altered a number of includes and other pages to fit my site's look and function, and I don't want to update and then have to go figure out exactly which parts of the forum code have been changed specifically so I can put my own changes back in. Thanks!! Drew

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 February 2007 at 3:46pm
	The upgrade doesn't require you to re-license all you need to do between minor versions like this is have a look in the Version History file that comes with the download for the changed files between the two versions and then update those file.
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wistex Members Profile Find Members Posts Mod Builder Group Joined: 30 August 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 877	Post Options Post Reply Quote wistex Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 February 2007 at 9:35pm
	ALWAYS remember to backup your old installation in case there are problems. Then you can always copy the old files back if there are problems.
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arothman Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 28 April 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 24	Post Options Post Reply Quote arothman Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 February 2007 at 9:44pm
	Yep - I got that part down! What I really should have done is made notes about what I've gone in and modified. :P Thanks!

wistex Members Profile Find Members Posts Mod Builder Group Joined: 30 August 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 877	Post Options Post Reply Quote wistex Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 February 2007 at 9:57pm
	Yeah, that is useful too. Now that WWF is more refined, I am finding less and less I need to modify, thank goodness. I'm mostly waiting for 9.x when some major features for the calendar and image/video gallery.
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