Can and cannot install TP with package manager

[Jpg]

I say scrap the whole thing and start from scratch...But that's just me...

[chriscorreia]

Smartass kid.      (jpg)

Crip, obviously my ignorance or idiocy has led to this.

So, the recovery is . . . Something along the lines of a fresh install into a new database, and then get my existing members and content into the new database somehow? (Hopefully?)

This then moves beyond my existing level of experience, knowledge and capability.

Hopefully there is an alternative recovery. Or a lot of hand holding for me!

[Jpg]

Yes you can replace the databases later I believe by changing the prefixes of the tables after restoring your old ones[if you use a different prefix on the second installation].

[chriscorreia]

Would the first step at this point be to delete the smf_tp_ tables in the existing database and then try to again install TP, to see if that works?

I'm not really sure on how to restore properly. Last time I just opened the database in phpmyadmin and then imported my backup copy. That was wrong?

[Jpg]

Nooooo, no deleting without backing up first!!!
And like -> http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/#faq6_5

[chriscorreia]

I'm backed up, just a bit ago. Both data only and with structure.

Thanks for the link, too!

[Jpg]

I say leave your current forum and databases alone.

Install a second forum of smf 1.1.2 first on a new mysql database and in a new folder.
And then restore databases on the new forum...if everything is okay then just delete the old one.

[chriscorreia]

So to restore, I just open the new install db in phpmyadmin and then import the old one?

Anything to do with prefixes and such?

[Crip]

Anything tp_database, look in Sources/ delete anything TP, & upload New SMF_ones.. look in the Default Theme delete anything TP / languages/folder too.. look in your Forum/root in the packages folder delete the TP_zip file & check/edit the [installed list] make sure no TP shows in there.. check in the backup/folder delete any TP in it..In Admin/Packages uninstall / delete any TP there..

OK..
noow you have a regular SMF Forum with no sign of TP ever beeing there, so now upload TP_zip via package manager and install..it will work this way...

[Crip]

This way you keep your members and content as is.