By Sam308 on

The following downloads are provided for those users who do not find it necessary to overwrite all the files within their Drupal 6.x installation when an update becomes available. Using a file comparison utility, the following update zip files contain only the date modified Drupal core distribution files which have been changed, added, or updated since the previous release.

Upload the new files to your Drupal site, then log into your site as the administrator and run update.php. A link to the update.php file can be found on the Administer » Site building » Modules page.

After running update.php, your Available Updates and Status Report functions will indicate that you are running the latest Drupal release version.

Drupal 6.17 to 6.18 Upgrade Files Only
Drupal 6.18 to 6.19 Upgrade Files Only

Note:
You can also download any of the other Drupal 6.x upgrade files from the same page. For reference purposes, see the following drupal.org support topic page: Drupal 6.x Upgrade - Files Only

Sam308

By the way, I have successfully updated twelve (12) Drupal 6.x websites using this method and have never encountered any site problems.

Past Topics for Reference

Drupal 6.16 to 6.17 Upgrade - Files Only
http://drupal.org/node/816600

Drupal 6.15 to 6.16 Upgrade - Files Only
http://drupal.org/node/732174

Drupal 6.14 to 6.15 Upgrade - Files Only
http://drupal.org/node/663396

Drupal 6.12 to 6.13 Upgrade - Files Only
http://drupal.org/node/507682

Drupal 6.11 to 6.12 Upgrade - Files Only
http://drupal.org/node/462634

Drupal 6.10 to 6.11 Upgrade - Files Only
http://drupal.org/node/449382

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

davepotts’s picture

davepotts commented

Big thanks for this! After 3 attempts to upgrade to 6.19 following the UPGRADE.txt instructions, this was the only way that didn't seem to kill my site.

Beata43’s picture

Beata43 commented

My question is:

Do I need upload files to my version 6,17

1. 6,18
2. than again 6,19

Or will be enough to upload only 6,19 to my 6,17 version ?

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Sam308 commented

Although Drupal states:

http://drupal.org/upgrade

When upgrading from one minor release to another, such as from Drupal 6.1 to 6.16, you can jump directly from one minor release to another without installing the releases in between.

I always do the incremental upgrade using this Drupal 6.x Upgrade - Files Only method to ensure all goes well.

Also, see this page for reference: http://drupal.org/node/534950

Sam

Beata43’s picture

Beata43 commented

Thank you,

it seems I have suceeded, don't see some errors

Where I could see my version (I am beginner with Drupal)

Sam308’s picture

Sam308 commented

After running update.php (Administer » Site building » Modules page), your Available Updates and Status Report functions (Administer » Reports) will indicate that you are running the latest Drupal release version.

Sam

Beata43’s picture

Beata43 commented

Thank you :-)

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nnitin commented

After failing three times upgrading from 6.16 to 6.19, and investing 6 hours on identifying problems, this procedure was very much easy and seems to work like champ.

A big thank you.

nnitin