Quote Originally Posted by oldblackguy
is there a way to move my database to the new copy.
Probably not without doing the upgrades... each upgrade does something different to the database. So if you're using 2.4 for example, you have to do the upgrade to 2.5 then do the upgrade to 2.6. I wouldn't try importing your database into a fresh install - it's likely to have unexpected results and you'll lose data.