[support] Topic revisited: unselecting modules and losing data.

[Neil: esl-lounge.com]

I went to my db afterwards and the table was gone, vanished into thin air 
along with 27 audio nodes contained within. And this is not some rarely-used 
module inhabiting a dark and dusty corner of drupal.org - this is a key 
module for thousands of sites.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "KOBA | Hans Rossel" <info at koba.be>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 3:35 AM
Subject: Re: [support] Topic revisited: unselecting modules and losing data.


> Are you sure you lost data when you activated the module again? I got
> this scary message also when deactivating the FAQ module, but the
> content whas again there when reactivating it.
>
> One module I saw the problem recently is taxonomy_html where the
> blocks are reset to their default values and have thus no more region
> assigned. Also any php visibility code you added is lost which is the
> most annoying. Its a module which is a bit abandoned (last update
> 2007) and which I use on an older site.
>
> I saw the same reset of blocks to default also with the tagadelic
> module, but that seemed to be solved in the latest version of the
> module.
>
> Hans
>
> On 8/31/08, Neil: esl-lounge.com <neil at esl-lounge.com> wrote:
>> I remember we discussed this on the mailing list a few months back and I
>> just had a clear example of it, thankfully on a test site.
>>
>> I de-selected the Audio module (remember, as we are advised to do when 
>> doing
>> a major drupal version upgrade) and I saw the message:
>>
>> "The content fields table content_type_audio has been deleted."
>>
>> so this seems proof positive that following the official advise to 
>> deselect
>> modules can harm your site and lose you data.
>>
>> Neil
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