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morvenwestfield
PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:41 pm 
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I have a dumb question. (Sorry.)

I'm a relative newbie and all I've done so far is INSTALL components. What happens when I need to upgrade to a new version of a component? How do I upgrade without losing the data? Does it vary from component to component, or is there a Joomla-standard way that I can assume will work? Should I ask the third-party component developer?

I looked in the documentation and help, but didn't find anything. (Of course, I could have been looking in the wrong place.) When I have the answer, I'll post in the documenation section with a suggestion of what to add, even if it's just "it depends."

Thanks,
Morven


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Tonie
PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:27 pm 
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Unfortunately, there is no standard for this. Most components do not delete the data when uninstalling, this means it is best to check this out before installing.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:45 pm 
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This is actually useful information. Based on what you said, I opened the Zip file for the component and found a text file called "Installation" which indeed did tell me how to upgrade and preserve my data.

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