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also, any advantage to simply installing the new version and just importing the posts via sql or something? is that even possible? we only have 3 users and about 200 posts. nothing in the way of categories. i’m wondering if that would be simpler or just a bigger headache.

okay cool. that’s what i did. so i’ll try uploading again.

hmm. okay. i’ll try again.

just checking, but i’m supposed to expand the tarball before uploading files via ftp, no?

alrighty, so i tried and tried to figure this one out for myself so i guess i’m just dumb. in step 1 of the upgrade there’s an error encountered at line 37:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/.walker/bp1050/brainpuppy.com/wp-admin/wp-install-helper.php on line 37

which i just figured meant i’d gotten the wrong table names down in the wp-config.php file. but i checked and they are right. all have the wp_ prefix, etc. any other possibilities of why this might be hanging?

there are some table names that appear to be redundant. eg b2categories and b2_categories. i renamed both files as wpcategories and wp_categories respectively. but then i checked the config file and in the value for table prefix there was b2 not b2_. was this an error? am i supposed to have both wp and wp_ tables? if so, what should the new table prefix setting be?

thanks podz.

say podz…it took a gut check, but i think i’m finally ready to run these upgrades. i backed up my site and the database using phpMyAdmin and am unafraid. first stumbling block though…

step 2: rename the b2 tables to have the same names as wp tables. i assume this just means simply replace b2— as wp—, correct?

i see the first step mentions upgrading from .71 to .72 “gold” yet no gold version of .72 exists in the code archive. the latest version of .72 is rc1 (http://static.wordpress.org/archive/wordpress-072-RC1.tar.gz.) will that do?

thanks again