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By qwertyjjj on
Hi
I have some updates to apply: 6.9 through 6.19.
Do I have to apply these in order or can I just apply 6.19?
Don;t Drupal do any auto update like Wordpress or do I have to download and apply updates manually to my folders?
Comments
You should be able to update
You should be able to update directly from 6.9 to 6.19.
Yes, you have to download the new files manually - although in Drupal 7, there should be a method of doing this for you.
Another way of speeding up
Another way of speeding up updates is to use drush (http://drupal.org/project/drush). These are command line php scripts that you can trigger on your server that will do the updating for you.
If you don;t have access to
If you don;t have access to the command like a lot of hosted websites, what is the option?
In that case you copy the
In that case you copy the files across manually for now - and as I said before, the update manager should help you when you start building in Drupal 7.