# Problem upgrading Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-upgrading-discourse/122382
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [July 9, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-upgrading-discourse/122382 "2019-07-09T01:30:42Z")
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### Author: ![wglass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/wglass/32/116728_2.png) [@wglass](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wglass)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-upgrading-discourse/122382/5 "2019-10-11T17:35:14Z")

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Finally got this working on my third or fourth work session. The issue appeared to be missing images from “uploads” folder. The solution was to make a new installation, use the same “app.yml” file, and restore from backup with dummy files for missing images.

In parallel to the original problem, I noticed after a previous upgrade various icons and images disappeared. When I tried to rebuild, the logs showed that the it quites after “optimizing site images”. I think it must have gotten stuck on a missed image and quit without logging that specific error. (there was no indication that missing images was the problem or what image files were missing).

In the end, I made a new Discourse install with the latest version. I restored from backup [following directions here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restore-a-backup-from-command-line/108034). It took me three tries.

First, the backup script errored out looking for uploaded files, so I copied in the uploads/default folder from my previous backed up files.

I ran the restore script again. This time it gave error that it couldn’t find a specific image file. I made a fake image file, gave it the same name and put it in the specified spot.

Ran the restore script a third time. Voila! My site was restored from backup and on the latest version.

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