[support] Trouble updating D6 to 7

[Metzler, David]

What I have done in the past in situations like this the following: 

1. Download the lastest version of the base theme (omega in your case) into a good new drupal dev site. 

2. Create a new subtheme of the base theme, and give it a different name than the one on your d6 site. Copy over the customization's (theme css etc) to the new theme. 

3. When you have a good working copy of the new 7.x version of your customizations on a dev site, push this new theme to your D6 converted drupal site. Be sure and clear all caches (including theme registry) between changes. 

4. Change the upgraded D6 site to use the new customized theme. 

This way you aren't dealing with conflicts in the way settings/regions are stored.  

Good luck. 


-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Waprothero at gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 7:26 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Trouble updating D6 to 7

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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