Upgrading with Update Manager Incurs Huge Data Loss!!!

[Eric Stewart]

I was assured by someone at Ubuntu Forums that if I use update manager that
no data will be written over.   What ended up happening is that when it was
finished and restarted I just got an error with no possible options to go
any further.  I am using my 8.10 CD right now to try to recover some but
some folders I will not be able to back up because somehow, I don't have
permission to read them!

Please advise all to backup your files before using update manager to do
this; sometimes the data that could be lost is actually very important!
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