Thread:Project:Support desk/Easy way to upgrade from version 1.8 to 1.22? - Part 2/reply (16)

Brian, I think you had a variety of problems, but I don't see a way to come around them. As I have already written before, you are in fact updating a six year old system and you are updating through I think it was 8 major releases. It is absolutely no wonder that there will be problems. However, not all of them were caused by MediaWiki. For example it is not MediaWikis fault when after you copied the database it does no longer contain all tables.

Anyway, if you want an advice from my side, whether you should continue with the update or not, I would definitely continue the update. You have already solved a number of problems and invested a lot of time; don't throw that away!