[support] repairing a website

[Don]

You may have to go into the system table and adjust the paths to the 
modules.  That's set when modules are enabled. I don't know if unsetting 
and setting will clear those entries, but uninstalling would remove 
custom database tables.

-Don-

On 1/29/2011 2:02 PM, Walt Daniels wrote:
> Just moving them should work. You have something else wrong.
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:53 PM, James R Stone <fndtn357 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:fndtn357 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have inherited a website that has third-party modules installed
>     into the modules folder at the root level with the core modules,
>     not sites/all/modules folder. Initially, I tried to  move the
>     directories one at at a time into the appropriate folder and the
>     site broke. The core is 6.19.
>     Would it be best to upgrade the core first?
>     Should I disable the module, followed by downloading and
>     installing the same module in the correct folder and then
>     re-enabling it?
>     Should I download and install all of the third party modules in
>     the correct folder first, delete the other inappropriately located
>     folders, and then run update first?
>     Do I need to recreate the entire site from scratch?
>
>     -- 
>     Best Regards,
>     James R Stone
>     fndtn357 at gmail.com <mailto:fndtn357 at gmail.com>
>
>
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>     can contribute."
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