Crash Recovery
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Whilst doing a server clean up I accidentally went and deleted the folder where I had installed Concrete5 (dumb or what?) No problems, I thought. The underlying database was still intact so I reinstalled C5 and then pointed the new installation to the existing database. This worked...
...in parts. The issue is that with the various addins I had installed with the original setup. Naturally, they are all gone given that I deleted their parent folder. The C5 scripts appear to be looking at the database and thinking that those addins still exist and have been installed. Attempting to "uninstall" them does not work since the paths to the addins do not exist so I am unable to do a simple cleanup.
And yet, it should be possible to simply edit the right database table entries to get C5 to "forget" those addins (or alternately change a few paths) so I can get the system fully operational again. The problem is - I don't know what tables I need to cleanup. I'd much appreciate any help.
...in parts. The issue is that with the various addins I had installed with the original setup. Naturally, they are all gone given that I deleted their parent folder. The C5 scripts appear to be looking at the database and thinking that those addins still exist and have been installed. Attempting to "uninstall" them does not work since the paths to the addins do not exist so I am unable to do a simple cleanup.
And yet, it should be possible to simply edit the right database table entries to get C5 to "forget" those addins (or alternately change a few paths) so I can get the system fully operational again. The problem is - I don't know what tables I need to cleanup. I'd much appreciate any help.
You should be able to do this the other way round, use ftp to unzip a copy of the addon in the packages directory and your recovered installation will (in many cases) behave as if it has always been there.
Thanks, but that has not quite done the trick. I tried to do just that with one of the addins - the login block which I put into the Packages folder (in the C5 root folder not in C5/concrete) but I can neither add a login block nor remove the "installed" one. (b.t.w I am using the latest version of C5)
How confident are you that you got the package/directory structure exactly right when you did this? If unsure, please post a screengrab of the directory tree and I will check it.
