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Well I spent the better part of the last 2 days to get jUprade to actually work. Not only did I find bugs in the newest release. It only works from 1.5.25 to 2.5.3 at least for the current 2.5.1 release of jUpdate. After many many many many tries I finally got it to at least migrate the major parts of my site. Migrating the menu's forget it; IT DOES NOT WORK!

As for support forget about that there is none or at minimum VERY VERY VERY little of it. Had problems many others have had and there was no answer to those questions asked for the same problem over and over.

For being an extension that is still being updated they can at least provide better support. Especially, when there is such a large number of users for this extension.

Oh did I forget that there is bugs (not security issues that I seen just bugs) in this current version of the extension too. It gets old when you have to save the parameters then leave to another component and come back to jUpgrade just to get your parameters that you saved to work.

Just my 2 cents on this extension, maybe it will work for you. Maybe just maybe those that run their forums will actually start answering questions of the same problems.

Followed all instructions meticulously and everything worked fine. It's a big step from J1.5 to J2.5 and there are things to do afterwards, but JUpgrade certainly eased the way.

The component itself works. The migration worked, installed joomla 2.5.

The problems that come in are far to great for this to be a viable method of upgrading. The component will install into a subdirectory, and use the same DB as your original install (doesnt overwrite anything) which is great.

It just seems to be far from complete. I watched as it migrated my components, modules, content, etc only to find that it would not be present once it was finished. I had to install the new K2, which is fine, and once I did, all of my articles showed back up. Only problem is, NONE of the access levels transfer, so you have to manually open and close each menu item, article, category, k2 it, k2 category, etc in order to get the items to publish again. If you don't do this, you'll get hit with 403/404 errors anytime you attempt to access content. It does not migrate any of the component settings that you had, so all categories and items that inherit parent properties will have to be set again. Not a big deal, but if you're going to tell me you're importing my components, make sure they're actually migrating.

I was very, very excited about this component, only to be let down completely. I could have completely migrated to a new 2.5 install by just copying over my articles and manually installing components.

This component has quite a bit of potential, but is no where near ready to be considered the official migration solution, which it seems to be marketed as pretty much anytime you search google for migration options from 1.5 to 2.5

If you are looking for a quick migration solution, and especially if you're not familiar with phpmyadmin (for some issues) do not bother trying this component, as you will end up frustrated that you're site isnt working.

Your best bet is to perform a clean install, migrate your articles yourself and reinstall your components. It may seem overwhelming, but you'll end up doing the exact same thing if you use jUpgrade.

I would like to note though, had I not had ANY third party components installed, and was using j1.5 with only it's native functions, I believe jUpgrade would have worked perfectly.

It seems that they only collect addresses.
I've tested it twice and never got any activation mail.

After installing, installing again, following some suggestions I found online, it just stalled at the "cleaning" screen. After making a few more tweeks it didn't even let me click the start download button. It essentially did nothing but frustrate me. I wasted five days trying to make it work. I can never get those days back.

I spended hours trying to migrate several joomla 1.5 installation to joomla 2.5. But just with no result. The component sometimes works, sometimes not, but allways leaves you an uncomplete joomla installation. Even official supported components and modules (see documentation) like "akeeba backup" will not be migrated.
I will go the manual process now ...

Very much disappointed with this extension. I dont know why Joomla keeps pushing for using this extension when it fails to deliver ?

I encounter problem, the support comes with a solution and still it doesnt work. And they keep encouraging for the solution when it doesnt work.

Pathetic.

Works flawless!. You need it, its a must have. I will recommend it for sure!!
Thanks a lot to the developer.

Migrates nothing, it just installs a new Joomla in Jupgrade sub-directory with fresh sampledata. Nice, now the website looks like a fresh install...

Want upgrade? Go manual!

I have migrated over 10 websites from Joomla! 1.5 to Joomla! 2.5 with this component so far.

This component deserves at least 5 stars, because it saves you many hours or even days of hard work.

I tried this out on my test site first and had some issues but this was all down to the set-up of my server and config.

After a few practices it worked fine and I was comfortable migrating my live site.

Worked a treat.

My only issue was that some of the content id's changed during the migration but its no big deal really, better than copying and pasting from A to B

Great extension

This extension tackles a difficult and complex problem. The documentation is sufficient and methodical to allow for many situations.

Excellent for free.

Follow the steps... like uninstalling extensions that will not work well in J2.5 prior to using.

After 3 hours of trying to get this component to work it did - so if you are finding your self in the same situation do the following: create a subfolder in your joomla site > manually upload the full and latest version of Joomla 2.5 > once this is done make the folder in which your new joomla installation resides writable > to to JUpgrade in your original Joomla 1.5 site and click on Parameters > in the 'target directory' field add the path to the directory where you want the content to migrate to (if its a sub directory add \) save and then start the JUpgrade migration. In a few minutes you are done. There is some more work to be done afterwards, but at least the main content should be all there.

I spend days, but this extension not work. I tried all suggestions which I find in developer forum, but without success. Compenent is like new car in 10 boxes, and you must made your car yourself. From forums I understand that I not alone with my problems...
Totally unusable component!

I tried upgrading using IE 8 and it didn't work at all. I then tried it via Google Chrome and all went well.

Thanks!

I give this extension 2 stars because it is likely able to solve most users migration problems.

It does a very good job of migrating content and the like, HOWEVER, when it comes to migrating users...that feature is completely omitted. Now, I don't know about you, but when you have a social network site with 32800+ users like I do, it's really ALL ABOUT THE USERS.

I migrated my site content, then found that I couldn't login to the site because the user table was empty on the migrated site and no users had been migrated. I have in excess of 1 Million Kunena forum posts and 32800+ users...if you're looking to migrate users then this is not the tool for you, it's a basic migration tool...I'm going to have a look at SP Upgrade as that one seems to be more up to the task. How the Joomla team could "endorse" this migration tool as the official migration tool is beyond me...if it can't migrate users, then really...what's the point?

Many thanks for the extension, i have been trying to migrate for sever months with the same extension. My site has over 2000 articles, and only a few where migrated. But after reading the debug, i took the execution_time of php from 60s to 360s and in the configuration i changed the default database prefix (from j25_ to jom_). I undone this last thing and it worked. Sorry for my poor English and thanks again.

I can't understand why this gets so many negative reviews. Installed and updated absolutely fine... it doesn't say anywhere that it does everything for you, but what it does do is simplify the whole process massively. Well done!

Thank you for the wonderful development component, with jupgrade I moved to Joomla 2.5 has a dozen of their sites and they all work successfully. Yes there were some problems with third-party extensions, but they are easily solved by simply updating and fine tuning.
I think it is much easier than with Joomla 1.5 migrate manually.
jupgrade excellent components, I advise everyone to try it.

No problems at all. Used the upgrade tool to upgrade to 1.7 and just now upgraded to 2.5
Not a single problem. Everything went very well. Definitely will have to put in a bit of effort to make site look as it was, but cannot expect a major migration to be done in an hour.

HOpe those that had issues managed to resolve them :)