Can Miva 4.23 be deleted from server after 5.5 up & running?

[Miss Kate]

I have been running Miva Merchant 5.5 ever since we had to convert from 4.23 for compliance. Can I delete anything that had to do with my old storefront from my Hostasaurus server? I just received a message that I am overlimit today and it is because I have been doing a lot of work on my store for the past couple of weeks. If the old 4.xx stuff doesn't need to be on the server any longer to interface with 5.5, can I back it up for safekeeping and then delete it off?

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Can Miva 4.23 be deleted from server after 5.5 up & running?

The only things that may be of any value are:

Images
Product Descriptions
Order History.

Product Descriptions and Order history can be "backed up" by exporting to a file and then downloading them to your computer
Images can just be downloaded as is to your local computer.

Then you can delete everything.

[ILoveHostasaurus]

Re: Can Miva 4.23 be deleted from server after 5.5 up & running?

Yes, it will no longer be used. The data portion is easy to identify and delete, it will just be the 'Merchant2' folder in your mivadata directory. The scripts side of things can sometimes be a little more tricky because it's not entirely unusual for customers to have us swap a new version into the same directory their old version ran from for SEO reasons, so sometimes you might find that the Merchant 5 files exist in a directory called Merchant2 and the older files are in the mm5 directory that the new store started out in. There will be a "5.00" directory within the active Merchant version 5 directory so that may help identify it. The only other issue we've sometimes run into is customers may build a new store in a new directory but still have hard links in their html code to images from the old store directory, typically Merchant2/graphics/00000001/<image name>. As long as you're sure you have nothing linking to content in the old store directory, it is safe to delete.

[Miss Kate]

Re: Can Miva 4.23 be deleted from server after 5.5 up &amp; running?

Thank you, Bruce. I know this stuff has been taking up a lot of room in my account on the server. Just being cautious and asking first.

The only things that may be of any value are:

Images
Product Descriptions
Order History.

Product Descriptions and Order history can be "backed up" by exporting to a file and then downloading them to your computer
Images can just be downloaded as is to your local computer.

Then you can delete everything.

[Miss Kate]

Re: Can Miva 4.23 be deleted from server after 5.5 up &amp; running?

Thank you, David. When the store got converted over an entirely new directory got created for mm5 with all the graphics and everything linked to that. I had been wondering for awhile and since I got the overlimit message this morning, I knew I had to do something about it.

Yes, it will no longer be used. The data portion is easy to identify and delete, it will just be the 'Merchant2' folder in your mivadata directory. The scripts side of things can sometimes be a little more tricky because it's not entirely unusual for customers to have us swap a new version into the same directory their old version ran from for SEO reasons, so sometimes you might find that the Merchant 5 files exist in a directory called Merchant2 and the older files are in the mm5 directory that the new store started out in. There will be a "5.00" directory within the active Merchant version 5 directory so that may help identify it. The only other issue we've sometimes run into is customers may build a new store in a new directory but still have hard links in their html code to images from the old store directory, typically Merchant2/graphics/00000001/<image name>. As long as you're sure you have nothing linking to content in the old store directory, it is safe to delete.