Yes, that was my recollection from a few months
ago. It was definitely CCK related (which, I believe doesn't have a uninstall
function: very few modules seem to) and I certainly lost data from merely
disactivating, not uninstalling.
Needless to say, I learnt my lesson and won't be
doing the same again.
Neil
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [support] upgrading to 5.8.
One question.
I found that disabling modules during minor upgrades causes
data loss consistently under specific circumstances, during earlier updates
(e.g. 5.2, 5.3). I observed that any module-supplied node type would
drop all the data in any assigned CCK fields when disabling &
upgrading. For example, if one had a simplenews node with an "editor"
cck field attached to it, one would lose all "editor" information.
However, the basic simplenews node data would be kept, as would any cck fields
attached to standard nodes. Only the combo of cck +
module-supplied-node-type seemed to cause problems.
Fortunately, I make
backups before upgrading and restored each time and did the upgrade without
disabling modules and it worked fine. After 5.5, I think, I gave up
attempting to disable modules and have had no problems
since.
Brian
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Fred Jones <
fredthejonester@gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Disabling modules anyhow can certainly lose data.
Even without
>> uninstalling. I disabled the Ads module on a site
once, I believe, and
>> data was lost which we were forced to
restore (what we could) from
>> backups.
>>
> If it
does the module is broken and needs a bug report issued. I've
>
not found this case.
I believe I made a mistake. The case where
I lost data I think was
actually that I uninstalled a module.
You
are correct, because simply disabling module does run any code, so
how
could any data be lost?
It indeed should be the case that disabling
modules will NOT lose any data.
My mistake for saying
otherwise.
Fred
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