Your previous post was this: by hooligannes

 To ensure you do it right this time, you should do a restore. Some tables from the membership provider could have been overlapped. So restore both your DB and your files, then go with the upgrade again.

The best practice is to do this on your own dev environment before attempting it live.

In  web.config: SQL Connection, encryption keys, object qualifier and db owner. Remember not to call the site from your dev environment. I use Dreamweaver's FTP client to update remote sites . Its cloaking feature is great.

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I had asked my provider (discountasp.net) to do a full restore of both the db and the site. they have said they have done this but as you can see from the site, it doesnt look correct as there is no data, no pics, no gallery config etc etc. www.turnster.co.uk

i have yet to create a dev environment at home on a separate machine, but i will do in future before upgrading. so far all i have done is ask for the site to be restored but as i said in my last post, all the info and data seems to have been lost or at least the links have been lost.

Is there anything in a restore that needs to be done to relink all these things, or how can i get it back to a working restore of the site with all my data back etc etc?

Any other suggestions. (PS I hope i am now using the correct forum) The link below is the other posts from the previous other thread about this issue.

thanks again for your help so far.

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/ForumsDotNetNuke/tabid/795/forumid/10/threadid/17991/postid/18743/threadpage/3/scope/posts/Default.aspx