Use the first instructions - the one that came with the download of the new version you've chosen. The only thing I do different is that I open my current conf/_basic_config.php file and my new version of the same file name so I can copy/paste info from the current file to the new file. It'll be a total of 6 or 7 lines - 3 or 4 for your database connection, 1 for your baseurl, 1 for your admin email addy, and 1 for config_is_done. After that I upload and run the installer. Oh and I always go to mydomain.tld/mypath/install/index.php just because I do. By doing the edit up front, then telling it I am upgrading, it already knows all my important information and proceeds directly to upgrading.

Just a tip :-

Create a file called _config_TEST.php and put your database details in there, along with $baseurl, $admin_email and $config_is_done, then upload it to your conf folder.

Then, the next time you upgrade you can just upload the whole folder without having to worry about your details being overwritten ;)

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For me it won't work because I tell my FTP program to only upload newer files. So if anything changed before the datestamps on my server it won't over-write, meaning I'm better off deleting everything and starting over. So I'd lose the file that typically wouldn't be over-written.

I think you could also chmod the file (to what I don't know) and enter in the details from backup while running install/index.php, but I've never done it that way.

Thanks very much for the responses. I'll be trying the update in about an hour, and I'll be sure to report back for good (hopefully) or otherwise.

Well, it looks like I got it that time around! Thanks EdB and Yabba!