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K@:
This help?

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=400356.0


--- Quote from: ApplianceJunk on May 06, 2012, 10:56:41 AM ---I bet a few of use could learn a thing or two about running a forum from you.
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Not about backing-up before installing mods, it would seem.

BinkyM:
K@:

It *would* help, 'cept I don't know what file(s) it is I need to replace. I was hoping someone could tell me.


--- Quote --- Not about backing-up before installing mods, it would seem
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Snort! Thing is I haven't anything to back up but about 24 messages and my theme. (My theme IS okay, right? It's separate from the code files, isn't it?) (PLEASE say "yes," or I'm going outside and finding a pit and siccing him on you!) (Aw, I'm both a cat *and* a pup person, so my threat is hollow. You're safe.) (Here: have some fish guts.)

I'm just getting the forum ready before I transfer over my messages from an Ikonboard forum and bring the members in, so it's in testing right now. I haven't been worried enough to back up. All I wanna do is to find out what file(s) handle the Modification and Feature Settings so I can replace it/them and go on my merry way. And sure enough, that thread you pointed me to says to do zactly that. I just need to know the right file(s), that's all.

C'mere so I can scratch your ears.

K@:
What that process in the thread I pointed you to does, is replace all the files back to as everything was, before you installed the mod. So, whichever file it was, it'll be put back, as-was.

So, everything will be as it was, before the mod was installed and fooked everything up.


--- Quote from: BinkyM on May 06, 2012, 05:25:42 PM ---C'mere so I can scratch your ears.

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BinkyM:
But see, K@, that woulda worked had I not installed another mod after the dumb Social Buttons mod. But I did. A few. I didn't realize what, exactly, had happened. In my zeal to get things going, I think I thought it was just a system burp, so I kept right on plugging along, thinking my Modification Settings would come back next time I looked. (I hadn't needed them up until that point.) I forgot about 'em until I went to my Feature Settings at some point and then discovered that they, too, were blank. It was then that I twigged to something a little more serious being wrong.

I think I'm slowly arriving at the fact that I need a re-install, and with it, the fact that the majority of my work has been on the stylesheets and the graphics. Okay, and the Package Manager doesn't work nice and neatly, so I either hafta download everything and then upload it, or else do it by hand. Well, that's not so awful; I think I have about nine packages installed, roughly. I'm just sad that the mods aren't more thoroughly tested; I'da thought that the community woulda thumped the snot out of all of them so that things like this don't happen. Then again, I guess any given mod isn't used by *everyone*, so bad stuff doesn't turn up the way I'd hope.

Nertz. I guess I'd better get everything I think I might lik to have in the future installed NOW before the membership arrives, because I don't want the database to have more than 100K of records in it when I go and cremate it with mods, huh?

Binky

BinkyM:

--- Quote from: Arantor on May 06, 2012, 11:02:13 AM ---Are there any errors in the error log?
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Kay; I now have 57 errors in my error log, so I can answer this question: every single one of those errors is in /Sources/Subs-Post.php, which "contains those functions pertaining to posting, and other such operations, including sending emails, ims, blocking spam, preparsing posts, spell checking, and the post box." They all seem to be related to eNotify and avatar, both of which are mods I've installed. (The former lets one know that there are PMs or replies waiting; the latter forces a registrant to pick an avatar, something a bot will usually fail to do.)

Does this tell you anything other than that there are most likely problems with these mods? My forum isn't live yet. I'm gonna go turn these mods off for now, see whether that stops the errors.

Binky

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