[support] Planning upgrade

[A-NO-NE Music]

I am planning to go from 5.1 to 5.2.  Do I really have to take the site
off-line?

I am having a major problem synching with local site.  The server time
stamp seems to be totally off.  Both Transmit and Dreamweaver8 tries to
download a bunch of files those which are known to be already synched,
while both of them are missing more important files such as modules.  Is
there any better option for OSX10.4?

I spent entire day to delete a few thousands duplicated images.  This
has been a nightmare.

I do have a stage directory on the server but synching with the live
directory seems to be almost impossible so I have abandoned it.  My ISP
only gives FTP access but not Terminal access.  Any suggestion on good
upgrade practice other than one is documented on Drupal.org, the one to
take site off-line, would be very much appreciated.

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- Hiro

Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
<http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>