Has anyone had any success using the alternative upgrade method to upgrade RC2 to stable 1? as shown below:

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This section is for expert users only, for alternative upgrade from RC2 *ONLY*:
WARNING: no support provided for this alternate method !
a) backup files and SQL database, including ue_config.php
b) unzip the packages and overwrite corresponding CB 1.0 RC2 files
c) restore backed-up ue_config.php and check AND SAVE CB configuration from backend.
d) do following SQL queries in your SQL admin (no need to do them with normal update):
ALTER TABLE `jos_comprofiler_fields` CHANGE `default` `default` MEDIUMTEXT DEFAULT NULL;
ALTER TABLE `jos_comprofiler_fields` CHANGE `tabid` `tabid` int(11) DEFAULT NULL;
UPDATE `jos_users` SET usertype='Registered' WHERE usertype='';

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Just wanted to know before i attempt it as it seems the easier and quickest way without the need to reinstall all plugins afterwards.

thanks,

I'm leery of it. I don't see any SQL in the "Experts" section of the README that's going to change the module/title column values in the jos_modules table from "mod_cbloginrc2"/"Login" to " mod_cblogin"/" CB Login".

I had trouble with the regular update method at step 6. The list of modules was empty. It took me a while to figure out that the "Filter" field at the top was getting populated and then a while longer to figure out that somewhere along the line, my webserver set a cookie named "Search" in my browser with the value which was populating the "Filter" field.

Had just upgraded to 1.0.9.

I did, however do some browsing with mismatched template files before I got that straightened out.

On 1.0.8, I had made revisions to
.../templates/rhuk_solarflare_ii/index.php and to
.../templates/rhuk_solarflare_ii/css/template_css.css

When I was about to recursively copy the 1.0.9 files, I placed my revisions to the latter in the copy source tree, but not my revisions to the former. Only after things looked waaaay wrong did I recall I had revised the former.

I don't know if browsing this mismtch might have caused my issue.