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By bkosborne on
Is this completely necessary?
Also, I'm a bit confused as to what disabling a module actually does. Will there be any weird effects of disabling the over 30 modules I have enabled?
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Normally when doing an
Normally when doing an upgrade between one 6.x version of Drupal core and another you don't need to disable anything. It *is* important to backup your database though!
Disabling a module is like pressing the pause button on that module's behaviors/functionality.
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk
all i do is backup db, put in
all i do is backup db, put in maint mode and copy over all files/modules except htaccess and php.ini
Sounds fair enough, sometimes
Sounds fair enough, sometimes you need to make sure you clean out old directories etc. first so you don't get old files left behind alongside the new ones where names have changed. That's more likely to be a issue with contrib than with core though.
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk