Update to 5.5.1 = Hit by site wrecking crew!!!!

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Ok so I played around with an offline version of 5.5 and decided I liked it. So I uploaded 5.5.1 (twice) onto my live site. Hey presto.Site wrecked!!

Using a slightly tweaked Dark Chocolate theme, up top I had a logo pic with my name on it,which was in a scrapbook ( the thing which is gone now) and a nav-bar. + a main front page using "Sortable Fancy box gallery" with various thumbnails (200x300).
Since I updated I have no Logo ( says scrapbook does not exist) Four duplicates of the Gallery ( now 36 pix instead of nine) and four duplicates of the nav bar. These cannot be edited or removed as I get an error message when I try. The only page like this is the Home page others just have no logo and one nav bar with other parts ok.

What to do? Start all over again and rebuild from scratch? OR I have a DB backup file so can I go back to 5.4??? I'd like to use the new interface but this screwed up site cannot stay up like it is for long.
Up to now since I found Concrete5 I loved everything about it and will accept no substitute so I'd be grateful for any help to get me back on track.Thanks

 
ags replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
Ok. I'm going to rip it all up and start again from zero.
fastcrash replied on at Permalink Reply
fastcrash
that's is a spirit,
it's remembering me when i updrade from 5.4.1 to 5.4.2,i build from scratch again.
the good thing, that's make me more familiary with the c5 flow
such as :
- always using global scrapbook is absolute,
- minimal your page_type(more page_type, more work to do)
- minimal your block area,
- use virtual host in your local environment to avaoid path mistake when your site live
ChrisNH replied on at Permalink Reply
ChrisNH
Speaking of the 'Dark Chocolate' Theme (which I liked), I cannot find it in the Marketplace any more. I installed the latest (5.5.1?) version of C5 and this Dark Chocolate theme is nowhere to be found.

On a related note, I find so many Themes which aren't compatible with the new C5. Is the new version of this so radically different that existing themes won't work at all?
MrGrowBizz replied on at Permalink Reply
MrGrowBizz
Just as a note of support, I use modified versions of Dark Chocolate on several sites that I upgraded to 5.5.1 as well as on a new site I developed using 5.5.1. Never lost my scrapbook on the upgrades or any header work performed. Have had no problems working around any issues encountered. I certainly have not found it to be Incompatible. Since I have made inherent changes in CSS, footer and header and a few other things, I transfer files from one site to another, so don't really know if it is in the market place or not, or should be.
MrGrowBizz replied on at Permalink Reply
MrGrowBizz
I just checked, as I thought, the stock Dark Chocolate theme automatically is installed with (but not activated)5.5.1. as it was with prior versions.
julia replied on at Permalink Reply
julia
Yeah, Dark Chocolate is a core theme, so it's not in the marketplace. It's possible you deleted the theme once upon a time, and now your site can't find it.. You can download a fresh copy of 5.5.1, grab the dark chocolate theme folder and upload it to your site's theme directory (not the core themes directory). Then it will be available to install.
TheRealSean replied on at Permalink Reply
TheRealSean
You can roll back your site in your folder
/root/config/site.php

<?php define('DIRNAME_APP_UPDATED', 'concrete5.4.2.2');?>

you may need to roll back your DB, most of the time I find just changing the APP_UPDATED constant works though
ags replied on at Permalink Reply
Thanks Sean but bit it's too late now. I did a fresh install of 5.5.1 and rebuilt the site from scratch, which was pretty easy as many pages are just "wrappers" for slideshows coming from outside the site on another server. Nearly done.