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Export old Civi3.15 and Import Civi4.05 Drupal 7.7
August 12, 2011, 11:08:23 am
We have an older version of CiviCRM (3.15) running on our VPS. Can we somehow bypass the upgrade procedures by exporting the large database in a large csv file and directly importing it into the new clean fresh install of Drupal 7.7 running 4.05? We are changing providers.

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Re: Export old Civi3.15 and Import Civi4.05 Drupal 7.7
August 12, 2011, 08:49:16 pm

No. the below method will definitely NOT work. u'll need to follow the upgrade procedure.

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Re: Export old Civi3.15 and Import Civi4.05 Drupal 7.7
August 15, 2011, 11:09:31 am
If all you want to retain is Contact data, then you could actually export that as a CSV and then import that into a fresh D7/C4 install, yes. But if you have any other data, it's probably going to be more work to try to export/import CSVs then to upgrade.
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