Help with forum layout

[G6Cad]

Please read this thread, it have the answers you need.

http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=11556.0

[brianjw]

I looked on your site and you are using a tinyportal theme but don't have TP installed because of that error at the bottom

[sparky33]

This is posted on SMF, TP and Crip board as it is relevent and linked to all three.

Here is the catalogue of events that lead to my forum being totally detroyed, and now weeks of work having to be redone, ok, all the important info is still there, but now I have to rebuild the structure of the forum.

It was installing SMF Links and Gallery that set it all off, they didn't show in admin, just blank spaces where they should have been so I uninstalled, and the blanks remained, ..it then turned out there was an update of dilber that fixed a bug or two..so I tried that...when I installed it I realized it was a fresh theme install, so not "modified" (I thought it would just work as an upgrade) so naturally I thought it would be ok to uninstall it, how wrong, it took out all the modifications and still the gaps remained in admin..so I thought..ok, uninstall and reinstall TP...that was when it all fell appart.

As you can see, I didn't make any errors myself and there were no warnings or failed tests either.

I managed to bring it back, but not as it was.....but there must be an easier way.

I used all the files from the packages back up folder, just chose one from before the problems started, so uploaded and over wrote the originals, that put it all back online, but that was only the half of it.

All the modifications in my non default theme were gone. to be on the safe side, I uninstalled all my modifications to see if there were any file problems, and of course there were, so I've spent 12 hrs checking, and removing code manually, before then re-installing the modifications "cleanly"

Still a couple of problems I can't seem to fix though...I can't uninstall Tiny Portal, at least not without doing it all manually, it takes ages for the status bar to get to half way then I get "page cannot be displayed", I know TP isn't right as I've got 3 sets of TP hide left/right panel buttons. (it was uninstalling TP that actually took the forum completely down in the first place)

The other problem is with my ad management, after the back up files were installed, the ads were showing, but I had no adman' admin , and in packages it was showing as not installed, so I clicked on install thinking it would just fix the error, instead it added the package twice, so I uninstalled, then I added the admin section manually, and it's all working, however packages still gives me the option to install.

Is there anyway to simply restore a forum to a previous date, without all this, you know, similar to windows restore. I wrongly thought that was the idea of the back up in admin on SMF, I thought that was what this was for:

Forum Maintenance - Backup Database
Save the table structure.
Save the table data. (the important stuff.)

[IchBin]

There's no need to cross post Sparky.

http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=13460.msg111769#msg111769