Title: Upgrade process
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Upgrade process

 *  Resolved [Bloke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloke/)
 * (@bloke)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-process-2/)
 * When I did the automatic upgrade of WordPress it created a folders called upgrade
   >wordpress-3.tmp>wordpress (and then all the word press files in there)
    My site
   isn’t structured this way it has all the files in the root. Does the upgrade 
   override my old files?

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 *  [mojowill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mojowill/)
 * (@mojowill)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-process-2/#post-3173718)
 * The upgrade process will move files to there before then overwriting your existing
   WordPress core files. This is how it works for all sites.
 *  Thread Starter [Bloke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloke/)
 * (@bloke)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-process-2/#post-3173856)
 * Well I upgraded another one of my sites and looked at the files on the server
   and it didn’t have the files I listed above from the upgrade. Does it usually
   create those folders and files and then delete them from the server?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-process-2/#post-3173857)
 * Yes.
 *  Thread Starter [Bloke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloke/)
 * (@bloke)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-process-2/#post-3173858)
 * Is there a reason it doesn’t always delete these temp files and folder?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-process-2/#post-3173859)
 * Yes – possibly becuase of a server configuration or permissions issue.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-process-2/#post-3173859)
 * Status: resolved

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