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Hi,

I was thinking of taking the leap and upgrading my store to V6.0.6 from 5.2.14.  I have a lot of mods and tweaks so here is my question.  Is there anyway I can keep my V5 running while

I tweak and redesign the new V6?  And I mean redesign all my products, product images, everything.  Change the folder where I store the product images, everything.  I've heard about cloning a store.  Is this what I would have to do?  What's the easiest way to accomplish this.  Just don't want any down time on my store being live and looking right.

Thanks for all help,

Claudia

 

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Mostly yes, but some of it, no.

There are significant differences in the CC5216 vs CC606 database. For one, all your displayed currency amounts will show malformed. There are a few other incompatibilities.

But, if you want to COPY your existing database to another database*, then have a fresh install of CC6** upgrade that database, go for it. But the time taken managing CC6 with it's own database, any database activity on the CC5 database will not carry over.

*By copy, this could even be copying the tables to another set of tables within the same database, just with a table prefix. Then, for the upgrade, be sure to edit the global.inc.php file to reflect the presence of that prefix.

**With a fresh install, but a copy of an existing database, you will need to copy over images, modules, languages, skins, and copy/edit the global.inc.php file.

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I don't think I'm going thru all that, Brian, I have a tendency of messing things up to much.  LOL.  But thanks for the info.  If I do upgrade to V6 and use my all in one shipping am I going to have to input all my zones and rates again or can I use what I have?  I like the basic Foundation skin that comes with V6 and some of its built in features.  I think I'll just do a basic upgrade and work with the Foundation skin at a slow pace.  That way my store will stay active.

Thanks Brian,

Claudia

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