Hello No actual migration was required once I had the .jar switched over recently, the existing location is picked up from the previous config files in the home directory which also get updated with the "new" config variables. Good to know the db is self contained. All the best From: basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de [mailto:basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de] On Behalf Of Stefania Axo Sent: 15 September 2017 17:47 To: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: [basex-talk] upgrade of BaseX from 8.6.5 to 8.6.6 how to migrate the data? hi I want to upgrade from 8.6.5 to 8.6.6. How do i migrate the data? do i just copy over the Basex\data folder? thanks Stefania