I upgraded from 1.3.8 to 1.5.1. by carefully following the upgrade instructions. I have reached the Successful Install page. I can open the test site and things appear to function as expected. I'm slogging my way through almost 1600 files with TextWrangler to compare changes as per this forums advice. It has taken me over 12 hours to compare all the different lines of code in just the includes files that appear on both the old and new versions. There's still new files and old files not in the new version to parse. (I swear it would take less time to start from scratch! I must be missing something here.) In any event...

It occurs to me that maybe something is still not right or finalized with the upgrade. Everything on the test site is from the template (classic) and none of the original webstore's products, categories, etc. show up. I believe I've uploaded the database (I made a copy of the original, renamed it and used that copy in the install and upgrade.

How do I get the products, categories, etc. into the test site? What am I missing here? I have searched the forum and the web and I'm not finding any answers. Keep in mind that I inherited this site, am a newbie to zencart (for the most part), understand a little bit about code and css stylesheets. I've been learning a lot from the forums but also am getting more and more certain that I cannot do this upgrade--it's just too complex and there are too many files. I have no notes from the original install so that is no help.

Thanks for whatever you can do to help.

[Note: I have been able to customize the home page with the store's logo, but that's about it.]