[Tony G]

Originally Posted by yayvb

Sounds good. One of my boards is running 3.5.2 which isn't ancient yet but I'd like to upgrade. The site has about 10 or so hacks installed. I actually installed all the same hacks on another test board and when I copied and overwrote all the files and tried to run the upgrade of course the site crashed and basically I wiped everything out and started all over.

I opened a thread asking the best way to upgrade a hacked site but the only response I got was someone saying I shouldn't have any problems. Well I did have problems which is why I asked the questions.

Is there an easy way to compare ALL of the files to see which ones have extra code added (hacked) and is there a way to compare the new database with the old database or something?

Like I said my live site with 300+ members needs to go from 3.5.2 to 3.5.4 but I don't want to kill the site. I can back it up which I do every day butam just looking for tips and or tricks to make this whole thing easier! For instance would it help me if after backing it up I setup the backup in a test environment and try to upgrade that one first and if I succeed move to the live or copy the test over to the live or something?

There are programs that can compare files for you - only one I know of is called 'Beyond Compare' but there are more out there.