Upgrading Drupal

I've got a site with about 600 nodes, 15 nodes and 5 users added per week running 4.7.6 (these numbers are increasing every week).

I want to upgrade to 5.1. I can't figure out how a test site would help.

While I'm doing the testing, I configure blocks, adjust theme settings, tweak modules settings etc. But now I'm stuck with a finely tuned 5.1 site that is missing the latest nodes/comments/users that were created during the test.

Title says it all really.... Do I upgrade straight to 5.1 or do I have to go to 5.0 first?

I recently discovered that, during my September 2006 upgrade of Drupal, there was database corruption. I'm not certain exactly how it happened, although I am certain of the character sequence which caused it.

Basically, some posters on my site use "smart quotes" when posting comments. From my database dump of 2006-09, I can see full entries for certain comments and blogs. However, more recent dumps show every entry with a right-hand "smart quote" truncated just before the right-hand quote.

Here is my current plan. Note the lack of know-how in the final step:

1. Clear current database
2. Restore from the known-good September backup, and see if the corruption recurs. If it does, figure out a way to escape the backquotes during the import so that it's not corrupted.
3. Figure out a way to restore only that data which has been modified since September. This includes a number of blog entries where I have modified the entry due to changing circumstances, such as closing a controversial entry for further comment, adding a note to the top of a particularly popular entry, etc.

Hi all,

I have a site running on Drupal 4.7.2

I need to move the contents to another site running Drupal 5.0

I have a Drupal 5.0 clean installation
I did a backup of the existing installation on the old site with drupal 4.7.2

then I put the old database in the clean drupal 5.0 installation
then I run update.php script

The problem is that all the contents show a N/A intead of the article text

Which is the correct procedure for such a site translfer/update?

thank
giammy

OK, I'm struggling here. My current 4.6.x platform has several thousand custom Flexinode based nodes. I've heard that that Flexinode will "eventually" be available for 5.x, but it seems that CCK is all the rage these days.

My preliminary tests have show that the Flexinode nodes are available (at least in a rather raw form) under 5.x, but since my custom template for formatting them seems to be useless since it cant seem to reference the individual fields.

I just installed from 4.7.5 to 4.7.6. I had a number nodes with files attached, but now when I attach a file to node, it doesn't point to the right file. The file is uploaded, but for some reason it points to an older file that I uploaded. Any ideas? Do I have to uninstall attachment and re-upload everything on the site (will be painful given the number of files).

Thanks!