Hi all,
I love Drupal. From the very first time. I think that it's an excellent CMS, easy, powerful, flexible, etc. etc. etc.
But... if you have to update it, it can be absolutely CRAZY!
Let me explain my case:
My website runs Drupal 4.6.8 (yeah, pretty old...), and it has several add-on modules included - being the most important ones "image" and "img_assist". I found them to be very useful for that early Drupal version, but now I guess that they are more annoying than useful...
I also have some "listhandler", "mailhandler" and "userspoints", but those are not that crucial.
My site has, as reported by MySQL, 320 users, 469 nodes, 566 comments, 66 images... and I will obviously *not* enter all those by hand in a new Drupal installation.
Unfortunately, the 'update' scripts do not work very well... I've been able to update the site fairly OK to 4.6.11 (the last 4.6.x series I think), but beyond that nothing works.
I've tried (some examples):
- with all possible modules deactivated
- with the standard theme (Bluemarine) activated (which, BTW, is not working well in my installation!)
- copying the new drupal files over the folder, or starting from scratch
- etc.
...and this, for updating to 4.7.11 and to 5.7. Updating to 6.1 directly obviously doesn't work neither. I've always followed the guide.