My b2evolution Version: 2.4.6

Hi all!

He who makes all the mistakes for others to avoid is back (daveuk) !!

B2 helpers here had made it quite clear that we should just upload the earlier downloaded files replacing the previous identical files on our server carefully and one by one.

So what did I do wrong? I have a website and am used to using CuteFTP 8 to upload a directory of my files at a time.... and... (here I can see the very experienced users thinking " I know where this is going. ")

Well no, actually I started doing file at a time uploading and then suddenly old habits got the better of me and I picked a directory on my server, deleted it and then uploaded the downloaded DIRECTORY. How wrong, how VERY wrong.. and this is why I did this post.

Suddenly I realised after about 3 directories what I was doing.. but it was too late so I continued to the end and tried to login. Of course it was CHAOS, all sorts of black typed ERROR messages appeared. Once again this guy had SCREWED UP.

Solution, took me just over 1 hour 30 minutes. I had decided beforehand to copy the entire BLOG directory to a hard disk on my computer. So I traced back one by one each relevant directory to find I had of course deleted file after file and directory after directory which should have remained. Finally it all went back together - now how I felt is a definition of the word "relief..."

Hope this will help someone else BEFORE they might do what I did. (and yes I do have a RED FACE !!)
David