I have been up more or less for the past 24 hours straight trying to update my #Friendica instance, only to have a break several times to the point of even having the database messed up and needing to get my hosting provider to do a database import for me, what keeps happening is every time I do the update even though I have my customized theme completely renamed the update removes my top navbar so I lose all functionality to post or do anything it's very annoying I can't update because it breaks and when I try to import my custom theme over the broken it does not fix it I'm not sure what @Friendica Support has done to the RC to cause this and I wish I knew so I could update but I can't.
in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

@Michael 🇺🇦 everything's been changed I've got everything back the way I had it after getting the host server tech support to re-import my working database because I lack root privilege, and restored all my other files to the backup I did before all this catastrophe, whatever has changed in RC alters customize themes that are saved in a different name and have no name hook to the original so I had frio and I made a few changes that I liked to it that I was able to do and I saved everything and changed in every single file in that theme folder to frio_custom but every single time I do get pull and go through all the steps to update I lose the nav I have no way of composing no way of doing anything I have the very top bar but not the main nav bar and then it got so messed up that it screwed the database up and I couldn't even roll back on git, basically had to do a full-on surgical transplant of everything and I just going to stay on the latest development and not move up ever unless somehow I ended up meeting somebody that's remotely close to me that is very familiar with this and can walk me through it personally because everything I have read and everything I have known to do just breaks it it's kind of ironic it's kind of a straightforward instance yet mine is really apparently different. Whatever Friendica has done and her latest updates for RC it totally negates your customizations and what makes it worse is I can't use the new frio because it also is missing the top nap bar now just for information my local config is set to frio custom but when I try to also and configuration on the database set it to free of custom the whole site breaks I have to change on a database on config to just frio, anyways I have everything working at the moment so I guess I'm just going to give up on trying to update I was going to try to create a local instance on my computer to keep battling it and see if I can't figure it out so that I can push it to my server but it appears that my computer can't handle setting up a home instance so for now I'm just stuck, last development stage oh well I still like it.
in reply to pasjrwoctx👽

Sorry, I totally loose focus when trying to read your text. I wasn't able to read the whole text. Please add line breaks at appropriate places, otherwise it is extremely hard to read for me.

Concerning the problem: I still don't understand how you were able to do something to your database. Nonetheless: When you try to update the next time, please be sure that you don't apply your changes immediately and even more important: You have to clear your browser cache to make sure that you don't use old code.

After that is done, you can try to apply your changes step by step while in parallel checking if everything still works.

in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

@Michael 🇺🇦 the entire updates where via ssh git pull, I committed my changes and even tried to cherry pick my commits, every time upgrading from Friendica 'Interrupted Fern' 2025.02-dev - 1583 to the new RC, I lost the nav bar both in stock frio and my custom frio, and as to the database I have no clue what went wrong, never could figure that one out, anyways, I guess I am going to just stay with the version I have from now on, as i really dont have a way nor the resources to set up a test instance to work the kinks out and have something of value to report.
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