Visited a site that links to a lot of content on my site and noticed that there were still quite a lot of broken links, so thought I would take a look at the rewrite rules given by Alex as part of the upgrade instructions.

Guess what - (I'm not even going to say it)

Direct links to media such as /media/images/sharingImages/123.jpg are not re-written at all, and the fact that media files are relocated to /modules/boonex/photos/data/files instead of remaining in the media folder (which ironically see more still exists within D7) means that the old links are completely broken.

Where in your instructions does it tell how to fix this?

I feel like I am banging my head against a wall.

I still stand by my recommendation...

Do not upgrade.

/DM