Hey Andrew, <div><br></div><div>Speaking generally, I&#39;m not sure it would be very straightforward to go from 5 to 7. I imagine it will need to be a bit of a manual process. If I were you, </div><div><br></div><div>1. Restore your live site</div>
<div>2. Get a test site running on your computer (using<a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html"> XAMPP</a> or a standalone <a href="https://www.acquia.com/downloads">drupal dev desktop app</a>)</div><div><br></div>
<div>That takes away the urgency/panic, and lets you break things all day long.</div><div><br></div><div>Then I would start with a fresh 7 install, redefine your content types manually, then export each of your content data individually (maybe as CSV) and import them into 7.  You&#39;ll have to also redefine any views you&#39;ve created, and the theme will just be the default 7 theme. If you have node references set up across your content types, that gets trickier but I think will be do-able.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This all probably way too general, let me know if you have specific questions/problems.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>Andy S</div><div>Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop - Lexington KY</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Andrew L <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:breathingplanet@gmail.com" target="_blank">breathingplanet@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hi Thinktank,<br>i went and f&amp;%$#d up our website trying to upgrade drupal versions without fully knowing what i was doing.<br>
can anyone come to my aid?  for a knowledgeable person, it would be very little time from your normal day.<br>
would love to find someone from the bike community to help... is that you?... read on.<br><br>----<br><br>urgency: somewhat high; our website is currently down and thats never good :(<br><br>overall goal: upgrade from drupal 5 to drupal 7 so that we can experiment with CiviCRM<br>

<br>what happened: i backed up our database using update/migrate module; and then performed the upgrade through out awesome hosts, mayfirst out of nyc.  however, i went from 5 to 7 - which is wrong.... and I am bad with command line, so dont really fully understand the instructions that are being given me. <br>

<br>also:  we are running drupal pretty much &#39;out-of-the-box&#39; so this should be really easy!!  no theming, no extra modules... but of course we would like to keep the historical database!!<br><br>pay: we can pay someone if that is useful/necessary and if they have some credentials to get it done quickly.  if someone wants to volunteer to help us out, we will send you a few of our &#39;patchkits&#39; - i would add a link, but HA! the site is down.  <br>

it&#39;s a handmade (tube)pouch with a hand-printed patch, and and actual patchkit and tire levers... a great stocking stuffer for a diy-biker person.<br><br><br>Thanks,<br>Andrew Lynn<br>Troy Bike Rescue<br>Troy, NY<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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