Ok if you are updating your beta version and have some members on your site (and what to keep them and don't know how) all you need to do is download the SQL table named Profiles as an sql file.
Then upload all the new files for the new beta (do not remove the old ones) to the Directory of your dolphin install (eg. root/puplic_html). When you have done that install the new version ( i would use a new database) and set it up so that all the modules that you had installed on the old version are re-installed (ie. Facebook connect).
Then go to phpMyAdmin and Drop the table called Profiles on the new database.
Ok now open the SQL file you downloaded from the old database (most likly username_databasename [eg. root_dolphin2]) in notepad and select everything and hit ctrl+c (copy)
Then in php my admin run a new SQL query and past the SQL code (ctrl+v) into the box and hit run. This will add all the users back onto your site with there profile pics
(this is alot beter that dolphin 6.* where it lost the pics).
I will also post another blog on how to gve users admin access.
hope this help out alot.
*NOTE THIS WILL NOT WORK FOR D6* to D7BETA* UPGRADES AS ITS A NEW SQL LAYOUT
I have asked this question in the forums, but havent got a firm answer. Will it be possible to upgrade from 6 to 7? I noticed you said it is a new sql layout, so will anything be written to migrate the data from 6 to 7 automatically?
Thanks
Cory
So, please do not invent and advise something that is not anticipated and will not work.
If we come across with any kind of such upgrades and mixes of betas bug reports from these users WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
Although I can understand the reasoning I can also see more
I am not interested in upgrading to the Beta, what I have been trying to figure out is if there will be an upgrade from 6 to the final release of 7? I have heard that the database is very different and some have suggested that an upgrade wont even be possible. I am hoping someone at Boonex can confirm or deny this? I would assume some sort of upgrade would be made for the best interest of current Dolphin users.