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13 <div><strong><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">Front</span>Accounting Update</span></strong></div>
17 <h2>Important Notes</h2>
20 <li>You can easily upload all the files to your installation folder on the
21 server overwriting the existing files, <strong><em>if you take these important
24 <li>Backup (download) the following files to another folder:
26 <li><strong>config_db.php</strong> (contains information about the companies and
29 <li><strong>config.php</strong> (contains various settings. You only need to
30 backup this file if you have done manually changes to it.
32 <li><strong>/lang/installed_languages.inc</strong> (contains information about the
35 <li><strong>/modules/installed_modules.php</strong> (contains information about
36 installed modules, <strong>only vers. 1.1</strong>)
38 <li>if you have made <em>changes to other files</em>, like themes or so, backup
39 these files too. </li>
43 <li>Upload all the new files.
45 <li>Restore the files mentioned in #1. Be <strong>careful</strong> with
46 <strong>config.db</strong>. Look into variances. There might be new variables in
47 the new version. It might be easier to <em>manually change your former values in
50 <li>Rename or remove the /install folder (you have already performed the install
51 process earlier). </li>
54 <li>If there are changes to the database structure, please run the script <strong><em>update_db.php</em></strong>
55 from FrontAccounting root installation, Enter the database user and the password and choose the update script from the local harddisk.</li>
56 <li><strong>When updating release 1.XX to release 2.0, you must run the update_db.php script and select the file <em>- alter.sql -</em> that are located in the sql folder. You <em>must</em> do this, before entering FrontAccounting!
57 Enter the database user and the password and choose the alter.sql script. <br>You must also manuelly ensure that you have write permission to the new folder /company/0.</strong></li>