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8 <div><strong><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">Front</span>Accounting Update</span></strong></div>
12 <h2>Important Notes</h2>
15 <li>You can easily upload all the files to your installation folder on the
16 server overwriting the existing files, <strong><em>if you take these important
19 <li>Backup (download) the following files to another folder:
21 <li><strong>config_db.php</strong> (contains information about the companies and
24 <li><strong>config.php</strong> (contains various settings. You only need to
25 backup this file if you have done manually changes to it.
27 <li><strong>/lang/installed_languages.inc</strong> (contains information about the
30 <li><strong>/modules/installed_modules.php</strong> (contains information about
31 installed modules<strong></strong>)</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">installed_extensions.php</span> (contains information about installed extensions to the menu system)</li>
32 <li>if you have made <em>changes to other files</em>, like themes or so, backup
33 these files too. </li>
37 <li>Upload all the new files.
39 <li>Restore the files mentioned in #1. Be <strong>careful</strong> with
40 <strong>config.php</strong>. Look into variances. There might be new variables in
41 the new version. It might be easier to <em>manually change your former values in
44 <li>Rename or remove the /install folder (you have already performed the install
45 process earlier). </li>
48 updating release 2.0.X to release 2.1.X, you must immediately
49 login on company 0, the first company you created, as admin
50 (called the superadmin). If you use a theme other than the standard 3,
51 aqua, cool or default, switch to one of these before going further. You
52 can download a new one of the new themes on the download page. Go
53 to the 'Setup' tab and run 'Software
55 Mark the checkbox 'Install' and press 'Upgrade System'. This will
56 upgrade ALL your companies.</strong></li><li style="font-weight: bold;">If something goes wrong during upgrade, you can enter here again and try 'Force Upgrade', and press 'Upgrade System' again.</li><li><strong style="font-weight: bold;"></strong><strong>There are no database changes during a major and minor release. Like from 2.1 to 2.1.1 - 2.1.5 .</strong></li><li style="font-weight: bold;">When
57 updating from release 2.1.2 to 2.1.3, please go into Bank and General
58 Ledger tab. Enter Account Classes. Change the Class Types to a proper
59 value for all classes.</li>
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