Upgrade instructions

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Upgrade instructions

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Hi there,

First, I want to thank this community for making CMS made simple availible, it sure has made my life a lot easier! :)

I tried finding an answer to my question searching the forum, but was unable to find it. I apologize in advance for asking this question if I've somehow overlooked the answer.

I recently upgraded from 1.5.2 to 1.5.3 to 1.5.4 using the full-diff packages, overwriting the files. Everything seems to be working fine. However, in the admin console I got a warning stating I should remove the install-dir. There is a install-dir present, which I removed after making a backup and everything still seems to work OK. However, the install-dir did contain a couple of language-files and two sql-files (extra.sql and initial.sql). I've tried finding instructions on what I should do with these files, but was unable to find them.

I gathered from another forum post (http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 928.0.html) that the ugrades I applied where file-upgrades only and no db-upgrade was nessesary, but it would have been nice to have had a readme-file present in the upgrade packages that actually confirmed this.

So my question is: with future upgrade packages, could you include a readme-file with instructions on how to perform the upgrade, even if they are as simple as "just overwrite the files"?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Upgrade instructions

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Glad it went well for you in the end, but the problem is a lot of people don't read the things they need to so 1 out of hundreds may read it and the rest will come here and ask how to do it, which they can find the how to in the wiki/documentation that they don't seem to be reading either...
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Re: Upgrade instructions

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Hey Mark,

thx for your response. I guess you're right, most people don't bother to read instructions before getting to work, I am definitely guilty of that myself. I just thought it would be a quick win to leave instructions in the upgrade packages, since I think that is the first place people will look for them. I know I did...

Thanks again!

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Re: Upgrade instructions

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Actually if you look in the doc folder you may be surprised...
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