By smallfluffykat on

I've put this into the upgrade forum as I can only assume it's not a co-incidence that this happened while I was trying to upgrade another site to 4.7.

My live site currently runs 4.6.6. I decided this weekend to try and upgrade to 4.7. I expected there to be problems so I created a copy of my live site in a subfolder of my webspace (my live site lives in the root folder currently), exported a copy of the database and loaded it into a seperate on. I changed the base url to point to the subfolder of the upgrade subfolder site and pointed it towards the separate database. In my head I now have two seperate sites running off 2 different databases so I could safely try and upgrade the subfolder site while leaving my main live site untouched.

This was possibly mistake number one.

I proceeded to try to upgrade and failed (as expected) with many errors but I figured that the main live site was still ok so I had nothing to worry about and a quick look at the main site made me think that it was still ok.

Mistake number two methinks.

This morning, one of my users added a post which made me take another look at it in detail and I now find that some of my links where image assist has inserted code for thumbnails have broken. It just leaves the filter code displayed in the post rather than replaceing it with the thumbnail. The files still exist in the files folder and you can still see them in the galleries ok. If you edit one of the broken posts you can get image assist to load and insert an appropriate code but when you subsequently submit the post, the broken code remains. The really odd thing is that in some cases the links are ok and the thumnails from image assist work fine. It doesn't seem to be time dependent.

Is there anyone who can shed some light on this? I've looked at my db tables for the live site and although the fid column in the files tables looks odd in places as there are breaks in the numbers I don't know enough about MySQL to know if it will make a difference.

Any help or suggestions you can give would be greatly appreciated.

The site is http://kiloaphatango.com. An ok post is the http://kiloalphatango.com/see_hear_and_speak_no_evil_0
A broken post is http://kiloalphatango.com/st_peters_church_racton_sussex

Apache 1.3.33
MySQL 4.0.25
PHP Version 4.4.2

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smallfluffykat commented

Thinking about this more - I ran the update-image.php file on the upgrade subfolder site. Maybe I ran it accidently on the live site instead. That might make sense as it is a problem with images. So maybe this is the wrong forum after all?

Anyone know how I might be able to undo my idiotness given there's no way I can replace the problem between the keyboard and the chair?

Many thanks in advance, Kat.

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smallfluffykat commented

I officially have no idea what is going on - some of the images are once again displaying correctly - even though earlier they were broken. I have no idea why my site is behaving so strangely. I'm lost.

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SparkyUK commented

and these aren't even ones brought in through a module - things like my header are missing. and all linked in images. The only ones that don't seem to be missnig are the background images. I have no idea why though.

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SparkyUK commented

hi, have you tried this?
http://drupal.org/node/67244

i created a txt file called .htaccess with the script listed in the beginning of htis page and added it to my files folder and now all is good in the world again. lovely.