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@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?

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