By Kimeros on

Hi,

I have inherited a Drupal 4.7 site. I understand that to update it from 4.7 to 6 I have to do the intermediate step of upgrading to 5 and then again to 6.

I have just gone through and checked the modules installed. Many of the contributed modules that we are using are no longer supported. I was thinking of creating a fresh Drupal 6 install and somehow importing the content instead of upgrading. This is partly because I want to change the way the site works anyway.

Is this a reasonable approach or should it be avoided at all costs? Opinions and suggestions welcome.

Cheers,
Kimeros.

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michelle
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I tried it and ended up just copying and pasting the old content into the new site. I had less than 100 nodes so it wasn't so bad. My site was heavy in flexinode, though, and that made it more complicated.

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a2vicki’s picture

a2vicki commented

I'm considering the same thing. We have more than 5000 nodes. It is impossible to do it manually and like Kimeros said I want to change the way the site works. Anyone can suggest us? Thanks

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marsrc commented

I am in the same situation. Our site has many nodes and also made extensive use of cck. Not sure how easy of a migration it would be. Any suggestions?