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I have just upgraded my site from 1.5.2 to 1.6.7 - yes i know there is a 1.7 but I was being cautious - and it all seems to have gone perfectly. This is what I did for reference for anyone else:-

1. Through cPanel backed up home directory and database
2. Unzipped cmsmadesimple-1.6.7-full.tar.gz to a local directory
3. Through coreftp I uploaded the contents of what I unzipped to the homedirectory. Clicked on Overwrite All
4. Sat back and waited for about 20 minutes
5. When it had all completed, checked the sitedown message in the admin (I perhaps should have done this first as the news and menu had disappeared?  )
6. Navigated to site/install/upgrade.php
7. Followed the pages through until they were all finished (But see below)
8. Checked modules for upgrades  - nothing required, but lots  can now be upgraded. Cataloger not supported  - but i wasn't using it anyway
9. Unchecked the site down message
10. Looked through the pages on my site and all seems well.

I didn't have to do anything with the config.php permissions - does that mean I have those wrong perhaps? It is 644

BUT In step 7 when I got to the step when I did the checksum cross ref, I got a huge number of red crosses - from what I could see mainly to do with lang files. I actually uploaded the whole lot again to see if it made any difference, but it didn't. Like I said the site is fine, but am I storing up problems for myself? Should I now upgrade to 1.7

Sorry - should have put step 0 - read the manual. I did do this, but thought I would say my exact steps and which ftp software  used incase any one wanted to do the same. I was not trying to rewrite the manual.

Having said that - it doesn't say what to do if you can't get rid of the checksum failures??
Also the second half of that page talks about going to 1.6 first and then 1.6.5 then 1.6.6 then 1.6.7  - I went straight to 1.6.7 as several people have done so on different threads here

David_Geoffrey wrote: Also the second half of that page talks about going to 1.6 first and then 1.6.5 then 1.6.6 then 1.6.7  - I went straight to 1.6.7 as several people have done so on different threads here

Skipping 1.6? 1.6 makes important changes to the database and config.php.

No I did a full install of 1.6.7 and didn't use the diffs

It is possible only  differences is  line ending "CRLF" vs "LF" only . To transfer text (.php) files use binary mode.
If you have cPanel upload ".tar.gz" to server and unpack it there - all process will take 5 min and you will avoid EOL character conversion.

1. Through cPanel backed up home directory and database

I like it very much