Docs: warn bare-metal users about stale files when upgrading (#13296)

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Trenton H
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@@ -262,6 +262,14 @@ to a positive number to enable polling and disable native filesystem notificatio
and copy the contents to the home directory of the user you created
earlier (`/opt/paperless`).
!!! note
If you are updating an existing bare-metal installation rather than
installing for the first time, see the
[bare metal update instructions](administration.md#bare-metal-updating)
instead -- extracting a new release on top of an old one can leave
behind stale files from the previous version.
Optional: If you cloned the Git repository, you will need to
compile the frontend yourself. See [here](development.md#front-end-development)
and use the `build` step, not `serve`.