[support] Trouble updating D6 to 7

[Ron Dorman]

On the upgrading being worth it question . . . I have migrated 5 client 
sites from 6 to 7 and am happy to have done so. Still trying to get the 
rest  to make the move upward because of the UI improvements, the api 
improvements, but mostly because of the clients that have moved are much 
happier with 7 than they were with 6.

As has been said in previous emails, upgrade the 6 installation to the 
latest 6 versions of Drupal core and all installed modules. Then go to 
Drupal 7.

I have had upgrades happen at different times in the development of D7, 
but taking each site as far forward in D6 as I could, then going to 
latest D7 in the upgrade has given me no problems. Different themes and 
modules in each site made no difference.

go to latest D6 core and modules
update.php
go to latest D7 core and modules
update.php

Not saying you will have no issues following this method, but I have had 
no issues following this method.

Ron D.


On 4/2/2013 8:26 PM, Waprothero at gmail.com wrote:
> My worst nightmare was the steady disintegration of the ui for the omega theme. Something may have gotten corrupted in my MAMP installation, so I'll start from a new MAMP and see if it helps. I'm doing everything on a local server so I don't mess up my live one that I need to have functioning. Another thing that seemed to help was setting the php memory higher.
>
> This has been an incredible time sink, and I'm thinking about whether the upgrade is really worth it.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions, and I know it's hard to help from email. There are so many things that can go wrong.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
> William Prothero
> http://es.earthednet.org
>
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> Make sure that every module and every theme is up-to-date with their
>> D6 version before updating.  Then update to D7.  If a module/theme
>> isn't going to be used in D7 be sure to get rid of it in D6 first.
>>
>> Earnie
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Prothero William <waprothero at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Folks:
>>> I am updating my site to Drupal 7. I am using the Omega theme, with a simple sub theme I developed. I'm stuck because the Zone and Region configuration menus no longer open up to set the configurations of each region. It did work, but after a LOT of struggle trying to get the update.php script to run without errors, the Zone and region configuration settings stopped working. In addition, the Omega them Layout Configuration had a nice selectable menu on the left, and this disappeared and the entire settings list appeared on a single page.
>>>
>>> Any advice? I'm coming to the conclusion that I don't need to do the upgrade, but if there is some obvious thing I'm doing wrong, I'll keep trying. I've followed the Omega theme directions by having the required modules available.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> Prothero William
>>> waprothero at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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