I was notified of a new post on Learning Movable Type this morning and it was "A Safe Way to Upgrade to Movable Type 3.3". I spent a while last night installing the new version onto a different web host so it was an entirely new installation. I was very reluctant to lose my plugins because of their incompatability with version 3.3, especially LivePreview that I've come to use frequently. None of the plugins reliant on the BigPAPI plugin will work in 3.3 and I have a few installed.
After reading Elise's latest post I decided to upgrade to a new directory in the cgi-bin and leave my previous version intact instead of overwriting it, as suggested in Six Apart's install instructions. I doctored up the new mt.js to include a couple of additional scripts and overwrote the contents of the mt-static directory. My internet speed seemed abnormally quick this morning and was able to upload the files quite quickly, unlike last night to the other server.
I was disappointed to note the blogs didn't reflect the upgraded version number, then remembered they should have all been rebuilt.
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