Large Scale Planes

OK, so just to wrap up my sorry little saga here, it turns out that (and I'm almost too embarrassed to admit this) I've been uploading all the upgrade files to our old server, not the current one! Classic user error, but of the worst kind - pay attention to the IP address next time! (It didn't help that I had the servers mislabelled in Filezilla). Anyway, my apologies for wasting everyone's time, though I did in fact learn a few things along the way. Time to see if I can get the v5 upgrade to work now... Kev

Thanks. I came here for help, not ridicule. And on that score, on another site I run, I had exactly the same download error while trying to perform the upgrade (it's on the same server, so no surprise there), so attempted to do it the "correct" way, but was met with "no applications to upgrade". I'm now stuck in a loop of being prompted to upgrade, but the upgrade failing to complete. Kev

Thanks! I suspected it would be something like that. Kev

I realise now that I should have uploaded the new files while the upgrader was paused and waiting, rather than just randomly when it seemed like a good time. Is there any way to invoke the upgrader manually? I guess I could re-download the unmodified files just as I'm being prompted to, but it's only asking to downgrade a small handful of them, and I'm concerned this would cause more problems, rather than solve them. Kev

Really? I've never noticed this functionality in Filezilla to be honest. Does it happen automatically, or do I need to select a "merge" option from somewhere? I know the question sounds stupid, but this is genuinely news to me. In any case, I've just finished uploading the files, and now the patch notification has gone, but ACP is complaining about modified files, and prompting me to re-download the unmodified originals. 🙄 Kev

Really? So I have navigate into all those directories and copy the files manually via FTP? The last time I had to do that, it took forever! There's gotta be a better way than that! How about more clues as to why the patch couldn't be downloaded? Actually, it gets through the download part, but errors out at "extracting...". Kev

I get a "error downloading update" message for the 4.7.20 version, whereupon I'm asked to upload the files to the server manually and click continue when ready. Where exactly do I upload them, though? Initially I uploaded the ZIP file to forums root directory, and then I tried the unzipped folder, but both were greeted with "no applications to upgrade". So I'm presuming that I didn't upload the files to the correct location. What am I supposed to do? Kev