title: Importing an existing Drupal project
body: <p>I am joining a team of developers who have an existing Drupal based project hosted online. So far, they have worked straight up on the production environment, meaning uploading files and making changes straight. I decided to have a development environment and have a few questions pertaining to that.</p>
  
  <p>i) I have installed Drupal-7.9 on my MAC. The existing website is in Drupal 6.x. I am going to have to download the drupal files of the site onto my local drupal folder. I am assuming Drupal 7.9 will be backward compatible. Correct me if I am wrong here</p>
  
  <p>ii) Now the trickier part, whilst I download the existing project onto my Drupal folder, the file directories and files are going to overwrite the existing Drupal folder, this essentially  will create unforseen issues. 
  My thinking is that I should simply download these files and store them in a separate folder, and replace the installation script of the existing drupal 6.x project with that of the drupal 7.9 installation script? Not sure if this is the best strategy to go around.</p>
  
  <p>This pretty much sums the challenge I am facing right now. Any light on this would be beneficial.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks much,</p>
  
  <p>Parijat Kalia</p>