I need update image.module from 4.7 to Drupal 5 however I can't find anywhere any information on how to do this, only handbook is about updating this module from 5 to 6 http://drupal.org/node/342269, issues doesn't help a bit http://drupal.org/node/203722 http://drupal.org/node/158334 nothing in readme.txt, author of the module is not responding.

I'm inclined to pay for helpful advice.

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Hetta’s picture

Hetta commented

Upgrade drupal 4.x to 5.x - instructions for that are available in UPGRADE.txt, included in the drupal 5.x tarball
(for the image module, download and install version 5.x-1.x)
Run update.php
Rename your old image table to something else (in phpmyadmin or mysql, or whatever you use to work on mysql tables)
download and install image version 5.x-2-x
run update.php
Upgrade drupal 5.x to 6.x, following the instructions in UPGRADE.txt, included in the drupal 6.x tarball.
run update.php

You're set.

Any problems, please report with details AND with error messages.

As to the maintainer not replying to your problems, well, your attitude frankly sucks ... http://drupal.org/node/142783 -- everybody on this project is _volunteering their time and know-how_.

Try to give constructive criticism. As in, "this doesn't work, here's what I did, here's the error message, I've trawled google for said message and didn't find any help". Comments like "this module sucks" won't entice anybody into helping you.

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v8powerage commented

Well I tried update this exactly this way but it's doesn't works that's why I posted this issue. This module is unfortunately very disappointing, just count how many similar issues has been posted…

I'm very well aware that everyone is volunteering, I'm volunteering as well updating my website which is non-profit, but the trouble is that I found no help whatsoever in here, in contrast to other (also non-profit) forums.

Most modules here are sponsored by a companies, I guess if I would propose nice sum to the author he would respond to my email, but I have only small budget since I'm running a non-profit community portal and I don't have a couple k $ for an update like drupal.org.

Hetta’s picture

Hetta commented

Ok, "it doesn't work" is extremely unhelpful.

Try this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

v8powerage’s picture

v8powerage commented

Just like You…

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alanburke commented

Rename your old image table to something else (in phpmyadmin or mysql, or whatever you use to work on mysql tables)

Hi Hetta,
I can't find reference to this step - is it outlined in some issue somewhere?

It might explain my 5-1-9 to 5-2-alpha upgrade issues...

Regards
Alan

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Hetta commented

There's a different image table in 4.x, which isn't deleted before the image 5.x-2.x image table is created. I've been following image issues for more than a year, and dunno when I saw that.

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v8powerage commented
Version: 5.x-2.x-dev » 6.x-1.0-alpha4
Category: task » support
Priority: Normal » Critical
v8powerage’s picture

v8powerage commented

Well I don't belive that there's only me struggling with this update, this is impossible, please somebody help me with this…

alanburke’s picture

alanburke commented
Version: 6.x-1.0-alpha4 » 5.x-2.0-alpha3

Hi Shaman

First up, have a read of this issue
#207557: update 5-1 to 5-2 gives user warning: Duplicate entry '611-thumbnail' for key 1 query in image_update_5200
It solved an issue I had which has some similarities to your problem.

Second,
List out the steps you took, and paste in the errors you got at the appropriate stage.

Are you upgrading Drupal 4 to Drupal 5?
Have you followed that standard Drupal upgrade steps.
[Disable all non core modules, install new drupal core code,
run update.php
install new image module code,
run update.php]

Regards
Alan

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sun
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Marking as duplicate of #358748: Post-upgrade from 4.7 to 5.14, images don't display. Please search for existing issues before submitting a new one.
You can follow up on that issue to track its status instead. If any information from this issue is missing in the other issue, please make sure you provide it over there.

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joachim commented

See #357793: Upgrading from 5.x-1.x to 6.x-1.x fails due to pre-D5 image table.
We think we've fixed this.