Copied entire contents without opening subfolders – all gone, right?

  • It was around midnight and I had no business messing around like I did, but I did try to “upgrade” my WP installation without reading the walkthrough and without backing up first. I thus FTP’d the entire contents of the newly downloaded 2.5.1 folder onto my live site without opening and moving the content and include folders, and got that dreaded failure page.

    Besides all the admonishments and beatings I am already administering myself, is there anything I can do other than pay GoDaddy the $150 they’re asking to restore from their backup?

    Thanks.

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  • Did you after uploading, do the upgrade by going to

    htttp: //yoursitename/wp-admin/upgrade.php

    Your database (posts, pages, comments, categories, tags, bookmarks) should still all be there, but your theme and any customizations you made to it and your uploads folder are gone.

    Thread Starter yiftach

    (@yiftach)

    Thank, hotkee. I had not done that, and I got a successful upgrade message, and even saw my sidebar and links and things show up, but no main post section. I’m confident it’s all there, of course, and it was high time I updated my theme anyway (thanks for the comment, iridiax), so I don’t mind losing that.

    Now I just need to figure out the last couple of steps. In the time when I thought I’d lost everything, I removed the index.php file and replaced it with a short custom message on an index.html file. My wordpress files are in a subfolder below my domain root; what 2.5.1 files need to be at the root? I think it’s index.php and missing.php?

    I’m gonna try and check the documentation, but I’ll check back here as well. Thanks again.

    Thread Starter yiftach

    (@yiftach)

    I can access my dashboard and it tells me how many posts I have and stuff, but I can’t see the posts themselves. Definitely need some final step assistance…

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