No uninstall link?

[Sal]

Um...I don't seem to have an uninstall link for TP  any ideas on how to get one to appear?  Thanks

[Ken.]

See if this from the Doc's section will help:
http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=10316.0

[Sal]

oh crikey that looks very complicated -but thanks anyway

[Ken.]

oh crikey that looks very complicated -but thanks anyway

It's not that bad really... and if you are going to build and maintain a forum you really need to know how to do this stuff. 

Here's a little note that I sometimes post whenever someone is trying these kinds of file edits for the first time:

Doing a manual install (or uninstall) of TinyPortal is easy to do, you just need to follow the directions found in the Manual Install File Modifications Guide.
Take your time and read carefully as you go and it will work well.


Here's how to safely do file edits:
FileZilla
One of the better ftp utilities and it's free.
It's the only one I use.

And you'll need a good editor, here is a nice free one:
Notepad++

Any time you do anything to your forum there is one thing that you should make part of your routine, like:

Backup... Backup... Backup!

When editing a file I generally do this;
Make a temp folder on my desktop...
Open the site with the FileZilla FTP utility...
Download a copy of the file in question and place it in the temp folder...
Then download a fresh copy into my editor and edit away...
Go back to the site and rename the existing online copy of the file to something else, like, old_filename.php...
Then upload the edited version of the file.
When doing several files I wait until all of them have been edited so that they can all be uploaded at the same time.

If everything is OK then I'm finished.
If its all messed up I just delete the bad file that was uploaded, rename the good one to the correct file name and the forum is back to normal.

[Sal]

ive been running a forum for 4 years but the problem has arisen because my back ups wont work when i restore them so i was told to remove TP and try then but now i cant remove TP either. nightmare!

[Ken.]

"ive been running a forum for 4 years"
Good deal... then you already know how to do a lot of this.  :up:


As for TP interfering with a backup restore, I don't know what to tell you on that one... hopefully one of the other Team members will have some help for you on that. first time hearing that one by the way

[Sal]

I've been using TP for ages and never had a problem with it until now when I tried to do a backup restore, I am just about to give up lol

[Ken.]

Don't give up... theres always a solution or someone to help, just give it a little time. 

[G6Cad]

Dont know what versions you have on SMF or TP, but i have restored sites using backups more times then i can remember, and it have always worked great.

Where did you make the backups from ? Cpanel ? Through the Administration in SMF ?