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I'm trying to rescue a severely broken system (the old server died), with little CivicRM experience.  The version I'm trying to save is 0.8.3... far too old for even the upgrade documentation.     I have an ISP to use, but it only has MySQL 5, so the database code won't work.  I suppose with enough time I could just hack it to run with MySQL 5, but I really don't have time. 

This is an EMERGENCY threatening the very existence of a nonprofit organization.  Any help or advice would be appreciated!  I'm out of practice with MySQL and haven't coded PHP, but I'm an experience professional analyst and a very quick study, and can punt my way through most things.  If I had enough time I'm sure I could do it myself, but I don't. 

1. find out what version of civicrm is running. its probably 1.2 or 1.3. You can probably find out by checking the civicrm directories

2. once u know the version, you can check the wiki for upgrade instructions from 1.x -> 1.9. Most of the upgrades were just a sql script, so hopefully most of this will go smoothly

3. once u have 1.9, then use the upgrade script to upgrade to 2.0 and D5

good luck

lobo

thats the civicspace version.

within it, there are two packages: drupal which has its own version (4.6 or 4.7 i suspect) and civicrm (1.2 or 1.3). you'll need to use your analyst skills and dive a bit deeper and figure out what versions of drupal/civicrm are part of that package

civicrm's first version of 1.0beta, we never had a 0.8.3

lobo