The best synchro around, thanks! need help, Upgrading Joomla type Sites???

[Chacapamac]

Yummy is now , for me, an essential tool of my everyday work as it proove to be better, faster and more reliable than Dreamweaver to synchronize a server, Thanks.

I work mostly on my localhost and synchronize on servers, sometimes for certain sites I go from servers to local, no errors, no problems, tons of possibilities, work without flaws. I’m use to take Dreamweaver to do the job but inconsistency and overlook folder and files render that expensive software unusable for FTP Transfers.

I like to have some input for another high point that Yummy probably can acheive....

I work mostly on Joomla base sites. The are heavily modified and for me and probably a lot of Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress webmaster we need to do upgrade of our installations from time to time. This involve dowloading the upgrade patch that contain all the folders with the new versions files that we have to manually update. This can take hours and result sometime in costly mistake as we have to pinpoint what files  was wrongly change or misplace.

And if you work with lot of site this become a serious part my work time....

The ideal scenario will be to synchronize the upgrade patch ( all folders are a mirror of a clean Joomla install with only the files that need to be add or replace) with my local sites.

That will be really cool when you think I have sometime more than 10 sites to updates at a time.....

All my sites are situated on a MAMP/WAMP local server, my idea was to symply create a Yummy synchro with the folder containing the upgrade patch an synchronize toward the targeted to upgrade site (Local), no deletion of files or folders only replace files, add new folders and files (rare).
If I can do that that will be fantastic.... I will try this week...

Do you have any hints or suggestions on this?

[JD]

Sorry for the delayed reply - I've been on the road.

If I understand you correctly then what you're suggesting should work, but I'm no web designer so I don't know how Joomla or Drupal work, for example, so I don't make any guarantees!

My only tips would be to make a backup of the server files first, so that if something goes wrong you can re-upload the original.  Also, use the Preview function to see what files / folders will be uploaded before making any commitments.

[macweb]

Hi, there

This is a good topic about Joomla update but I did not find a solution.

I try to sync with the preview function and I detect that some files will not be uploaded so it will not do the complete update.
Is there any way to force Yummy to upload all local files , deleting the existing ones ?

I will appreciate some tip to solve this issue.

Thanks in advance

[JD]

Well, instead of using Sync, why not just manually select all the local files and click Upload ? After that you can use Sync to upload only the changed files.

[macweb]

Hi,

Well in a Joomla update that includes many files and folders it will be very difficult.

If I select all the files and folders in the Joomla update will they go to the specific locations and substitut the remote ones ?

Thanks

[JD]

Ok, my misunderstanding - sorry for that.

If you have a local copy of your Joomla installation and it has been updated with the patch then the Update Server sync should work. I'm not sure why Yummy wouldn't spot some files though...

Can you examine the missed files and see what is different about them? For Yummy to detect a changed file either the modification date or the size must be different. If they are identical they compare the contents with a diff tool such as TextWrangler to see if they really are different.

Unfortunately Yummy cannot examine the actual contents of the files as this would require actually downloading all the server files to perform the comparison.

One alternative would be to enable the AutoRoute function for your Bookmarked server, then drag and drop one file at a time from the Joomla patch onto the Yummy FTP icon in the Dock - the AutoRoute function would then automatically upload the file to the correct location on the server.

[dogpaw]

I'm a web developer using Joomla for years for my clients. I simply upload the Joomla updates via Yummy FTP and the pertinent files are replaced.

I, of course, make a full backup of the Joomla site first.

Yummy FTP is the only FTP client I've used over the years that has successfully just replaced the individual files within directories and not replaced the entire directory.

My Joomla updates take just minutes.

[macweb]

Thank you all.
It´s so simple I ´ve just sellect all joomla files and folders and drop them in the remote httpdocs.

This is the best FTP client I ever seen.

Thanks

[JD]