I've been attempting to upgrade from D6 to D7 for over a year. I keep getting closer. I thought in January I was actually going to be able to pull it off, but I keep finding these... things... that get in my way.
One of the latest and more serious ones is that my images disappear AFTER I convert them from the D6 field types to the D7 field types. Was wondering if any of you have run across this.
Here's what happens:
1. I take my d6 installation on my test site, disable all the plugins, switch to d7 and upgrade the d6 database.
2. The upgrade process takes a long time, but it works without any reported errors.
3. At this point, the images on my site (which used a cck-provided field) don't display because that field type isn't a proper d7 field type.
4. No worries, D7 provides a tool that lets you do the conversions! So I run the tool, select all the unconverted d6 field types and convert them to d7. The process reports no errors whatsoever.
5. Huzzah! I have images in my content again.
6. Now I go about enabling all the D7 equivalents of the D6 plugins I used. I successfully enable them.
7. Huzzah! I now have all my plugins. And the images are still there.
8. Now I need to clean up the display of my content types. I do this with the display suite plugin. I activate a display suite layout for a content type and start moving around fields until they're in the right order (planning to make them pretty with custom CSS entries later).
9. What the... ? My images for that content type are gone.
The fields are there. If I edit the node, I see the field for uploading the image, but it doesn't show the image at all! In fact, it appears as if all information about each image used in each node of that content type has just... vanished. The field is there but it's empty.
Has anyone encountered this in D7? It might be specifically related to the plugin (I'm checking the bug reports for display suite too) but I wanted to see if other people have encountered this apart from using the DS plugin...
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Comments
OK then.
I guess nobody else has had this problem. That's very inconvenient for me!