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Opened 11 months ago

Last modified 11 months ago

#63916 new defect (bug)

Reinstall page advises users to delete their previous database

Reported by: lev0 Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: Upgrade/Install Version:
Severity: minor Keywords: has-patch
Cc: Focuses:

Description

It's not good advice because users who understand the consequences of deleting their database are more likely to have already taken a backup and dropped the tables before attempting a reinstall. It is safer, faster, and easier, to instead ask the user to change their table prefix, leaving the data from their previous site untouched.

Change History (2)

This ticket was mentioned in ​PR #9719 on ​WordPress/wordpress-develop by ​@lev0.
11 months ago #1

  • Keywords has-patch added

Non-destructive advice for reinstall.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63916

#2 @mukesh27
11 months ago

  • Version trunk
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