hey there, sorry for the delay in responding, public holidays in timor-leste.
I would like to avoid re-uploading all the files because I had to do that one-by-one and it took far too many hours. There doesn't seem to be an option with my cPanel to upload a whole folder, you have to do it file by file. It was a fresh download of wordpress but I had to unzip the folder by copying and pasting to a different folder before my cpanel wouldn't allow me to upload from the first location of the zipfolder.
Is it possible that I have just missed a file and that's what the problem is?
I do have a backup that I did just before I tried to do the update... are you suggesting that I should re-upload that backup and start again?