Upgrading Aurea List Manager from version 4.2.1 or lower
If you attempt to upgrade version 4.2.1 to 12 directly, your data is not copied correctly to the new database. To perform this upgrade, you must go through the upgrade process four times and download the right installers from support.aurea.com.
- Upgrade 4.2.1 to 7.0.
- Upgrade 7.0 to 8.9c.
- Upgrade 8.9c to 9.3D.
- Upgrade 9.3D to 11.0.
Note
Lyris Technologies no longer tests upgrades from versions 6.1 and earlier.
Read Important Upgrade Information and Preparing to Upgrade before upgrading.
Preparing your Data
Aurea List Manager 5.0 and higher no longer use FoxPro as its database format.
For more information, see Supported Platforms for a list of databases you may use with Aurea List Manager.
We recommend you perform a dbupgrade before upgrading.
To perform dbupgrade:
- Stop Aurea List Manager and open a command prompt.
- Cd to the directory which contains
lyris.exeand run the commandlyris.dbupgrade
Note
Dbupgrademay take several hours, depending on the size of your data.
- Be sure to back up your database directory found in your Aurea List Manager directory before upgrading.
- If you are upgrading from 4.x and using the embedded database MSDE, check the total size of your database directory. MSDE is limited to 2 GB for all its tables, so if you have too much data, the upgrade is not going to be successful.
- Your account representative can tell you more about external databases you can use with Aurea List Manager
Upgrading Aurea List Manager
Note
Upgrading the database may take several hours, depending on the size of your data.
- Make sure that Aurea List Manager is not running when you upgrade it.
- Shut down Aurea List Manager and the Aurea List Manager web server.
- Double click on the Aurea List Manager installer icon.
- When running the Aurea List Manager installer, select Upgrade instead of New install and provide the installer with the path where Aurea List Manager's installation folder is. The installer automatically copies the data if necessary, and upgrade the database.
- Shut down Aurea List Manager if you started it after the installation.
- Set your serial code on the command line with the following command:
lm serialyourcode
- Run the Aurea List Manager installer three more times, first to upgrade to version 8.9c, then to 9.3D, and then to 10.0. Select Upgrade each time.
- When the installation is complete, start Aurea List Manager.