1.9.4.1 upgrade failed due to PHP 7.2 & deleted files

[accelsoft]

Today, I tried updating from 1.9.4.0 to 1.9.4.1, and the update process gave the following error: "requires PHP version >= 5.2.0 and <= 6.0.0" despite the fact that Magento started supporting PHP 7.2 with version 1.9.4.0.  It also deleted thousands of files, necessitating a restore from a backup.  Has anyone else experienced either of these problems?

[cosmo]

Yep faced the same problem when upgraded from 1.9.3.10 to 1.9.4.0. Had to change PHP version to 5.6.3 for my store (via CPanel), upgrade and then change back to PHP7x

[ipcpurchasing]

How did you do the upgrade when the files are delete?

[accelsoft]

I have not updated my Magento store

[mickeybare]

You can perform the upgrade in command line with PHP 5.6.

How to do this?: change the setting of your server to run PHP 5.6 in CLI and 7.2 in web server, it will not affect your website, check the detail here: https://secure.php.net/manual/en/install.general.php.

After that, you can upgrade your Magento store without problems.

Another solution (not recommended):

Copy entire your Magento 1.9.4.0 to another server with PHP 5.6 running, then perform the upgrade. After it's upgraded successfully, copy the source code back to your PHP 7.2 server.