**Potential Upgrade Issue** Confused Newbie Joomla 3.10 to 4

[ByterBit]

Utterly ignorant newbie.
Doing my first upgrade from Joomla 3.10 to 4
Using the instructions here:

https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_3.x_to_4.x_Step_by_Step_Migration

I'm told:

??**System - jDownloads**??

and then:

**Potential Upgrade Issue**
**This extension includes a plugin that could cause the upgrade to fail.

To perform the Joomla upgrade safely you should either upgrade this extension to a version compatible with your target version of Joomla or disable the relevant plugin(s) and check again.

For more information about the relevant plugins please check the 'Live Update' tab.**

I ran the automated up-grader and it pushed the jDownloads version up a few points, but I still get this warning.

What to do?

Do I force ( assuming I can figure out how) the version up to something compatible with Joomla 4?
This makes little sense, as I'm still running 3.10.

[ColinM]

Hi
There is an article in the jD Documentation that should help
https://www.jdownloads.net/documentation/getting-started-v3-9/upgrading-from-jd3-9-to-jd4

It also deals with the Joomla! issues


Colin

[ByterBit]

Colin:

Thanks very much for the reply!

I got as far as trying to install the newest version of jDownloads, but ran into:

Unknown column 'publish_down' in 'where clause'
and
**Error installing **component****

Can you suggest a next step in debugging this?

Many thanks -

[ColinM]

Hi
Looking at the image it has pairs of **.  This is not normal.  Are you running in debug mode?
Colin

[ByterBit]

Yes, I was running in debug mode.
Didn't know that was a problem.
I've turned it off.
I'm now being shown:

Call to a member function setState() on bool.

I have no idea as to what to do next.

[ByterBit]

Colin:

I'm stuck.
Site is not working.
Is there anything I can do to rescue this?
Start again from a backup?
Will the error happen again if I do?


Many thanks for any help.

[ColinM]

Hi
Yes start again from a backup and follow the article carefully.
What extensions (components Modules and plugins) do you have?
I will check them out

Colin