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I just performed an upgrade from 2.0 to 2.01 and the UI is broken in my preferences window now:

http://dearest.cope.rnic.us/images/mint_preferences.png

I did clear my cache this time around in Firefox the same way that resolved rendering related problems in Mint after my 2.0 upgrade.

I looked at the upgrade instructions included in the readme, but since I had already uploaded the ZIP and shelled into my server, used a slight variant: I renamed my app and pepper/shauninman folder and copied the updated mint folder on top of the existing install.

I’m also still seeing the ‘updates available’ link in the top left corner.

Any idea what might be going on?

That helped. It ended up being a problem with duplicate pepper directories. I still had the backed up shauninman folder there (you know, the one the readme explicitly says to remove) and an uninstalled secret crush one.

Can Secret Crush safely be updated from 2.00 by copying over the files?

I actually have mine in pepper/secretcrush_v200 and never moved it to the shauninman folder (again, as mentioned in the readme). If I uninstall and reinstall, does Secret Crush have any custom data that will get lost?

Uninstalling a Pepper using the “Uninstall” button will almost always result in dataloss (unless that Pepper simply presents another Pepper’s data, eg. Fresh View). That’s explained when you click the “Uninstall” button:

Uninstall the <insert Pepper name> Pepper? (Doing so will delete all associated data. The Pepper may be reinstalled but this data cannot be recovered.)

The normal upgrade process should not.

One final note: I’m guessing a lot of my pepper specific problems is due to me copying over a new app directory in my upgrade process. Other pepper config items like the Technorati key and the number of days to go back and compare against for Trends were simply blanked out, which caused them to break. I’m seeing my old Trends data again fine now after I realized that.

Do peppers keep their config settings in the app folder then and not the DB or the local pepper folder? If so, the recommended upgrade method if going to wipe that out every time.

I had this when I was installing the update via your instructions.

Everything went back to normal after removing the shauninman-old (or shauninman-new) folder from the /pepper/ directory.