Upgrading Drupal

If you are a Drupal newbie like me and finally going to address that message about version 6.2 now available (Drupal 6.2 released, fixing security issues) then read on. Although I wanted the latest release to address any issues (especially security ones!), I started preparing by reading the forum related to upgrading and seeing things like "site trashed after attempting upgrade"... Ok maybe I can live with a few security issues in 6.1.... I just got started using Drupal a few months ago, got it set up great, have lots of folks visiting every day (a local community sports site) and don't want it to blow up...

na lets go for it!

Disclaimer: As mentioned, I am a drupal newbie and these instructions are NOT in any way "the official upgrade instructions" to go from 6.1 to 6.2, but it worked for me. You may also avoid some of the mistakes I made along the way....

1. First download 6.2 file and find something that will uncompress a .tar file. I originally moved it to a new folder on my host's server using cpanel and tried to execute it to uncompress, but didn't it didn't do anything. So, downloaded a program and uncompressed it on my PC.

2. Saw lots of comments in the forum about making sure you read and follow the instructions in UPGRADE.TXT. So I tried to follow them to the letter. I have listed them below, with my comments in curly brackets {}.

UPGRADING

http://steadi.ru/content/stiedikam-i-siianiie-stat-ia-gerrieta-brauna

1.In Firefox the text moves to left before the Youtube embedding.
2.In IE the videos are not seen at all.

I embedded the videos with inserting youtube embed-code.

So, I decided to embed Youtube another way in another site

http://realcinema.ru/cinema/node/7

Hi,

I just automatically upgraded to drupal 6.2 through the fantastico function and now my whole site is stuffed??? the following error occurs, please assist!!!

thanks
cameron

After several weeks of wrangling and discovering the absence of required modules and quirkiness of new modules I am ready to go back to version 5.7 (or whatever the last 5.x is).

In the site that needs to be changed, I have uninstalled all the custom modules, backed up the data and backed up the database.

I have over 200 pages of content that is basic stuff, some html but no video, audio or custom fields. Some pages have tables and most are linked to other pages via menu choices.

I have been moving a drupal site over to another server. I've been able to move the files, and database etc. The site seems to be grabbing some of the information from the database (but not sure on that). Yet I am getting these PHP errors:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/netlab/includes/database.mysql.inc:172) in /var/www/netlab/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 488

I attempted to upgrade a site with Fantastico scripts, and I didn't remove modules, adjust theme, etc., and the site is totally scrozzled. (I'm pretty good at *using* and *administering* my drupal sites, but not at installing or ever touching the MySQL databases directly - I use Fantastico automated installation at my host to set up sites for teaching classes every term, and I'd like to restore this one for use as a model for next year. I know, I know - I shouldn't have been tempted by that "upgrade to Drupal 6 button. )