Hi Folk,
I am pretty keen on upgrading a 138a install to current over the next day. There are 51 pages of threads here and most I have read so far seem to be people having issues or expecting issues and some people trying to help.

I really want to keep using zencart but am a little surprised with the upgrade procedure when compared to say wordpress (also complex).

Anyway I have downloaded and created directories with:
1. new version
2. my old version
3. clean old version.

I have taken a look with some diff software and there are differences but am not looking forward to merging every file by hand. However I guess that is the way ...

Has anyone here written a tutorial showing what to do?

Or is there a really good thread that is useful for a someone new to zencart to make this happen?

There is something about the tutorial on zen-cart.com that is confusing. Not sure what it is but I am finding it very difficult to follow (a little ambiguous perhaps). I am going to keep muddling my way through it, but I EXPECT problems and that is a huge worry for me.

What is a typical price for commercial help with upgrading a zencart site?

thanks shaun