Skip The Budgie

Okay, so this is what happened... I think I'm being pretty clever, why bother to replace everything when all I need to do is read the patch and change a few lines in a couple of files. Who NEEDS to do all this full backup rubbish when you're not really changing anything, not really?

Ok, here goes...

NETWORK ERROR

Damn, better try to log back in...

NETWORK ERROR

Oh wait, where were those bits that I changed about browser sessions, maybe that's the problem...

NETWORK ERROR

Okay, Okay I'll just put everything back to how it was...

NETWORK ERROR - The hosting company restore the previous week's backup - NETWORK ERROR - They try the one from two weeks ago - NETWORK ERROR NETWORK ERROR NETWORK ERROR NETWORK ERROR NETWORK ERROR

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So I make a new database, install the very latest version of Drupal - now 5.2 instead of 4.7 - which I hadn't wanted to do because of all the work it would involve to update the site so that it works properly. The new site can't read my old database, which it is supposed to as it is supposed be able to upgrade it automatically. I painstakingly copy over each table that matches from the old version to the new in phpMyAdmin. I delete all the files, I copy everything back and tweak the theme a little.

With all this comes new functionality, the audio stuff is a bit better and the whole sustem is much easier to use but I really could have done without all this! All the gigs in the calendar are now set to 1970, which is preumably the year technology started. Or music itself, depending on who you talk to.

New clever thing no. 1: Using the Views Module and the development version of the excellent Audio Module I have a playlist where you can select which genre you want to listen to... PLAYLIST