Hi Ross,

Have you seen the upgrade documentation, we have a general upgrade documentation and a version specific. https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Getting-Started/Setup/Upgrading/

And yes I think that it would be a god idea to upgrade to version 7 first, following this guide https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Getting-Started/Setup/Upgrading/upgrading-to-v7

After this then take the little jump up to Umbraco 7.3.4

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

I have recently upgraded a site from version 6.16 to 7.3.2. I ran into a few issues with the upgrade. I had to ran some scripts to clean the content with the content type = 0. Below is the script I ran before I started the upgrade in case you get a similar issue....

BEGIN TRAN DELETE FROM dbo.cmsContentVersion WHERE contentid in ( SELECT nodeid FROM [dbo].[cmsContent] WHERE [contentType] = 0)

DELETE FROM dbo.cmsMember WHERE nodeid in ( SELECT nodeid FROM [dbo].[cmsContent] WHERE [contentType] = 0)

DELETE FROM [dbo].[cmsContent] WHERE [contentType] = 0

Print 'Deleted content with content type = 0'

update umbracoNode set uniqueID = newid() from ( select id, uniqueID from umbracoNode where uniqueID in ( select uniqueID from umbracoNode group by uniqueID having count(*) > 1) ) n where umbracoNode.id = n.id

Print 'Assigned New Id to duplicate UmbracoNodes'

Saad, did you have to upgrade from 6.1.6 to 7.0.0, then upgrade to 7.3.2, as Dennis suggests?

You are deleting content with a content type of zero (0). Why are those content types there if you can just delete them? You said you ran into a few issues. What are the others?

Thanks for your advice!

I upgraded straight to 7.3.2 using an nuget package.

I followed the instructions on (https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Getting-Started/Setup/Upgrading/upgrading-to-v7).

We have some legacy content which needs cleaning but for some reasons there were some rows in cmscontent table that had a contentype with the value 0.

The other issues I ran into were expected...

The custom user controls in the back office were not working. I had to convert them to angular based controls.

Some of the partial views in the site were broken which were easy to fix.

Ucomponent doesn't work but most of the controls are part of Umbraco core now.

Damp component is no longer supported but the Core media picker in Umbraco 7 is good enough for what I wanted.

Image crop didn't work automatically so we had to upload the images again to resize.

One control that is not in the Core is Multi Url picker from ucomponent for which I used (http://umbracodevelopers.sdesign1dev.co.uk/2014/8/27/rjp-multi-url-picker/).

Below is the script to rearrange data from ucomponent multi url picker to RJB...

update cpd SET dataNtext= Replace( Replace( Replace( Replace( Replace( Replace( Replace(convert(nvarchar(2000),dataNtext),'{','[{') ,'}','}]') ,'"NewWindow":false','"icon": "settingTemplate.gif"') ,'"Title"','"name"') ,'"NodeId"','"id"') ,'"Url"','"url"') ,'"Mode":2,','') from cmsPropertyType cpt JOIN cmsContentType ct ON cpt.contentTypeId = ct.nodeId JOIN cmsPropertyData cpd ON cpd.propertytypeid = cpt.id where cpt.datatypeid=4399 AND dataNtext IS NOT NULL

Print 'Rearrange JSON for MultiUrlPicker RJB'

Uh, there are several things you stated that I am not clear as to what they are. Such as:

ucomponent, angular based controls, Damp component

Could you possibly give me a brief description of what these are? Perhaps I already know but don't know their proper names.

Ucomponent was the data types we were using in the previous versions of Umbraco (http://ucomponents.org/)

Similarly DAMP is another component that was used (https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/digibiz-advanced-media-picker)

I could not get my old webforms (ascx) control to work in Umbraco 7 Back office site so I had to rewrite them.(https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Tutorials/Creating-a-Property-Editor/0)

Are you saying that ASCX files don't work in v7? I have several user controls in the admin and on the front end.

I have gotten v7.3.4 running. Though, there are many things that aren't working. I changed the umbracosettings.config to use WebForms as the default. I checked some of the macros and some of them seem to work. Right now, I am trying to get Contour working. I am currently getting the error: No provider with id '04067c46-ca1a-11de-8958-2c4456d89593' found.

Does anyone have any idea what that might be?

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