Well that was certainly interesting. Rather than a quick upgrade, I discovered that I’m not fond of the new WP interface and that I can bugger up my install in less than 30 minutes. Killing the install was easy. Trying to recover from the mess was the interesting part. The Export function in WP exports everything! 1000+ pieces of month old stinky spam? No problem. *sigh* Then, the import function was limited to 2MB in the php.ini file. My backup file was 4MB. I tried editing max file size in the php.ini with no joy. Needless to say I had to manually edit back up files so I could import the old records. At least the recovery process for my pretty pictures and themes was pretty painless.

And somewhere during this mess I walked away from the laptop and headed out to dinner with a friend. I needed the break in so many ways.

For the moment, I’ve downgraded. Once I figure out how I blew up the upgraded install AND have a chunk of time available I may try again. In the meantime, I apologize for all the havock I’ve been wreaking on my glorious (and brilliant) reader’s RSS feeds. Mea culpa.

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