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Do i run th install for 3.8 or 4.1 then drop th tables and replace with with backup?

Installer will create new db, so it should be run for 4.1

Kurund

Thanks Kurund and and in particular Hershel, your assistance has been most helpful, even though i was not patient enough to wait for your replies.

I ended up doing this;

Exported CiviCRM 3.8 Database
Disabled CiviCRM module
Dropped old CiviCRM tables
Removed sites/default/civicrm.settings.php
Replaced 3.8 civicrm core with 4.1
Ran the CiviCRM installer for 4.1 ( sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/index.php )
Exported CiviCRM 4.1 Database table civicrm_setting
Dropped CiviCRM 4.1 tables
Imported CiviCRM 3.8 .sql and civicrm_setting table .sql (without th civicrm_setting table i was still getting " Fatal DB error, exiting, seems like your schema does not have civicrm_setting" i could go from working to not working by just adding and removing that table)

At this point things weren't working very well, version on bottom of civi pages was 3.8 module description was 3.8 module check box was 4.1, civi menu was not sowing up dashboard giving error about enabling javascript.

Could not run upgrader it was saying already 4.1

So I deleted th 4.1 core files from th sever and replaced them with 4.2 then run the upgrader civicrm/upgrade?reset=1

Now i have a working version of 4.2

(there seems to be no emoticon to illustrate relief)