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MT upgrades are scary

It's posts like this one which gives instructions on how to safely upgrade MT that make me glad that I went with WP1.

There's a revealing comment by Elise further on in which she writes the following:

You can delete the old [backup] directory. But I wouldn't right away.
Problems and issues have a way of cropping up unexpectedly. I think I waited at least 6 months after my upgrade to MT3.2 before I deleted the earlier directory.

As Angie writes, whilst such posts are extremely useful, they shouldn't need to exist in this day and age. Software shouldn't be this difficult to use.


  1. When I started this blog, the choice was basically down to a homegrown solution, WP or MT. In the end, I plumped for WP due to the ease with which I could use, modify and extend the system. [back]

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2 Responses to “MT upgrades are scary”

  1. Gravatar bt November 3rd, 2006 10:52 pm

    Quite so.

  2. Gravatar Adam Messinger November 17th, 2006 3:26 am

    Good God, that’s frightening. Makes me think harder than ever about moving my photoblog to either WordPress or TextPattern.