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Finally! I understand my confusion.

I was confused about dropping the new phpwcms folder onto the old phpwcms folder, because I was thinking in the way an operating system works (like XP or OS X). But I found out that this is not the same behaviour with ftp. Strange, didn't knew that.

Thank for ...

Okay, to be completely clear:

In my old phpwcms folder on my ftp-server I have all sorts of files, which is the content of the site. So the folders:

phpwcms_filestorage (15,4 MB)
picture (2,5 MB)
phpwcms_template
content/images (2,4 MB)

will all be overwritten by the new empty folders in the 1.2 ...

Yeah, well, the forum search function gives me too much unrelated topics.

My problem is:
Do I have to overwrite all my content?
And how do I get my content back?

Siily questions, not?

Well, I thought I did. Am I missing something?

I'm really confused.

I want to update from 1.1 RC4 to 1.2.8 and I'm following the tutorial on http://www.phpwcms-docu.de/update_to_dev._1.1.x.phtml but I don't understand 1 crucial thing:

1. back up all files - done
2. back db - done
3. edit certain files - okay, done
4. The tutorial says:
"Now ...