Third attempt at upgrading again meets with failure at login (error below)

[Teune]

After following the documented instructions, when I try to navigate to the album, I am being forced to login (new) and after I enter the only login (I checked id and password in phpmyadmin) I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in E:\WEBSITES\naperweb.com\photos\login.php on line 37
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in E:\WEBSITES\naperweb.com\photos\login.php on line 37

This is a test album as I am extremely leary of attempting an upgrade of a live photo album after the difficulties encountered on this test databse.

Ed

[Nibbler]

What version are you upgrading to ?

[Teune]

From 1.3.x to 1.4.4
http://www.naperweb.com/photos/

[Nibbler]

Make sure you uploaded all the new files, replacing the old ones.

[Teune]

Yes, I did that of course. Manually went to each folder and made sure all new files overwriting old ones.
Like I said, this is my third attempt.

[Teune]

Well, alrighty, then.
I am just deleting this test system completely, copying my live photo album over and testing on that.
I am going to follow the documented instructions AGAIN and see what happens this time (number 4)
wish me luck, I'm goin in again!
dive! dive! dive!
Ahooogah! Ahooogah! Ahooogah!

[Teune]

4th time is a charm.
Instead of following the documentation this time, I tried something different and it worked.

I DELETED all files except the albums folder.
Uploaded 1.4.4 files.
Ran update.php
except for a few theme issues, I am back in business!

moral of the story?
Backup everything, then try the documented instructions, then try something similar to documented instructions, then try something a bit different from that and maybe you can get updated to the latest version!

boy, was that fun.

[Tranz]

That seems to indicate maybe an issue with the ftp client not overwriting the old files properly?

[Teune]

It could be, but I tried two different FTP clients and specifically indicated overwrite all on both.
I really think either the documentation should be changed or the upgrade process itself.
A LOT of folks have had difficutly with this, and I don't think they are all just making stupid mistakes.
Sorry, I am spoiled with simplemachines forum software, a couple clicks inside the software itself, bam! upgraded.