Recent upgrade was disaster, is it safe to try again?

  • I recently attempted to upgrade my company’s website using the “Automatic upgrade to WordPress 2.8” link that appeared one day on my dashboard. This ended up erasing almost all the files on our server, as well as .php files of some 30 other clients hosted on that same server. We were therefore asked to remove our site and find a new host, so I did that and just now downloaded WordPress 2.8 from www.ads-software.com (“just now” being 9 a.m., July 9 2009). I assume that this version is the newest, and that I will not have the same problem if I install on my new host’s server?

    Also – a slightly different question. I have three other sites that also contain this link on their dashboards to upgrade to 2.8 that I have not upgraded yet. Will that link take me to the version that erases all the files? Or will it point to the version where this has been fixed? (I *assume* this has been fixed…)

    Thanks.

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  • Good god. I just started this process and I wish I had read this post. So far it’s just hanging there, doing nothing. SO far I haven’t seen anything get erased, thank god. But the process does not appear to be doing ANYTHING, just sitting there churning away. Did your process actually finish at some point?

    Thread Starter janetgia

    (@janetgia)

    Nick, no it did not. I aborted it because just like you, it was taking a LONG time. Turns out it erased a lot of things on the server – at least, that’s what my (irritated) host told me.

    Interesting. I’m doing a panicked backup now of everything I can find on the server.

    Are you able to access anything on WP Admin now? Like your login screen, or even the site itself? I can access other files, but nothing associated with WP works at all.

    Thread Starter janetgia

    (@janetgia)

    No, my website right now has a big ol’ black text message on it that says “It works.” I have no idea if this is what’s left after my attempt to upgrade, or if that’s something that popped up when the host folks were trying to fix it. At the time I aborted, I had three folders left on my portion of the server, and my URL was displaying those folders as clickable links in a tree – so, anyone could open them and at least view the contents. I cannot even access it via FTP right now. This is my company website. My personal sites, I haven’t even attempted to upgrade because of this. At my new host, I will be installing v. 2.7 and sticking with that.

    Thread Starter janetgia

    (@janetgia)

    And my wp-admin page delivers a 404 – Not Found error.

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