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Tue Jul 05, 2016 12:58 pm
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Hello,

I've always updated my templates (not many, but some) by backing up only overrides.css, favicon, logo.* and some other occasional images before installing the update.

I made today the very same thing with MSocial, but with my suprise I realized that a template K2 override (a way K2 handles the date format display) I made some time before had been overwritten.

I'm not sure but I don't remember it ever happend to me with other templates; as far as I remeber I'm used to back up only override.css and some minor stuff ...

I don't understand the logic in such template overrides behaviour: if they are supposed to preserve the changes you make by the updates (both Joomla and template) overwrite, why do they overwrite though?

I cannot remember all the template override I make, so it's difficult to remember wich one I'm supposed to keep.

Why do the documention is so lack of these stuff? Is there something I missed in updating templates? Even if I updated the template manually how can I remember which file I modified?

But the most important question is: what kind of update is the one that I'm allowed to ignore if I changed some code line files? Aren't those files supposed to be an update? Why do the override overrides? Can't you just avoid to include them in the update?

What kind of logic I'm missing?

Thanks
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teitbite
Sun Jul 10, 2016 11:07 am
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Hi

If You've made a modification it's better not to replace such file at all and if I'm not mistaken in one of Your other questions we have worked on some changes to K2 override in template so just use old folder /html/com_k2 from Your backup.

When I do modification I try to make a file with a list of files I've changed to not have any problems during update or checking last modification date in files so I know what was changed recently.
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