up grade to 7.6

How do i upgrade to the next version of dolphin without having to delete all my members and their settings and stuff? I really don't want to have to do lots of work again on my website, plus i have mods installed, will they now not work?

If you check the blog which announces the update it gives full details. If you follow it exactly as instructed you will not lose any data including members. If you also read the comments on there it will help if you have any mods to the core files. Good luck!

Edited to include the following

Here's the link to the blog post;

http://www.boonex.com/n/dolphin-pro-7-1-6-released-important-service-upda

I have version 7.1.4  so do i have to update to 7.1.5 and then to 7.1.6 cause this is going to take ages!

Yes, you have to update to 7.1.5 first, then to 7.1.6

There are very few changed files in each of those upgrades, so as long as you do not have many custom mods that require source changes, then it will not take long. All modules that do not require source code changes to dolphin will most likely continue to run without any problems. Those that do require source changes may need to have the source portion of the mod reinstalled.

If will not take ages. Depending on the number source code changes your mods require, it can take anywhere between 10 minutes to just a couple of hours. It really will not take very long to do it.

in the 7.1.5 patch there is folders...administration, flash, inc, modules, templates, upgrade.

but in my directory there is no upgrade folder. do i make and upgrade folder or do these go somewhere else?

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/Dol7Upgrade

put this folder upgrade in the root from your dolphin site and delite the .htaccess  and run your site /upgrade 

it took me ages and ages to replace all those config files in the modules, there must be an easier way. I hope its not the same for the next 7.1.6

right! I see in the modules, a stack of config files, do i REALLY have to replace ALL of those again? are they different from the ones I just replaced in 7.1.5 patch?

and do i delete the 'upgrade' folder afterwards?

I guess i need to create a video tutorial on this.

The process is quite easy, and it's a simple drag and drop with the FTP client. Many people think you have to go through all those folders and upload each file one a a time You don't, there is a much, much faster way. I guess i need to create a tutorial on this to show people how to properly use a FTP client.

 Yes, you should.

well ummm yes I did manually go through every folder and replace every file, I didn't know there was a different way but come on...this is ME your talking to, most other people will perhaps already know idk lol

I thought you had already upgraded to 7.1.5.

no, unless you did it, but no it was 7.1.4.  so now its 7.1.6 and the youtube thingie still doesn't work. 

https://youtube.com/devicesupport  still getting that. is there a fix for it yet?

ok i broke it i think, at the top of the site there is now this text 

__page_og_image__

idk why

see that little __page_og_image__ text at the top of m page? thats what i am talking about

 That is from this topic,

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Meta-individual-member-photos.htm#258021

you need to remove Prashanks changes in the respective _header.html

as AlexT states, it's not needed.

 Did you clear your cache?

i am confused as to what i am supposed to remove. oh yes i did clear cache

ok the og thing is fixed but the facebook is not working again and the youtube is still broken

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Facebook-likes-almost-7-1-6.htm#258161

This is what you should do.  Revert back to 7.1.4 from your backups.  Clone your site to a test site.  Apply the upgrade to your test site and test.  If all is working as should be, then run the upgrade on your live site backing up the site files and database before running the upgrade.  Repeat for 7.1.6.

Yes, best practices often require more work but it keeps something from biting you in the arse.

I finished the 7.16 upgrade, but now have issues adding in core mods (like Files) without it giving me database errors. i ran the error in php directly seeing that values that were left blank were needing a value (like 0) 

Start a new thread with the title along the lines of "Upgraded to 7.1.6, database error installing module".  In the post please list the database error message and any other information you feel needs to be presented.