Just moving them should work. You have something else wrong.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:53 PM, James R Stone <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:fndtn357@gmail.com">fndtn357@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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.<div>

Would it be best to upgrade the core first?</div><div>Should I disable the module, followed by downloading and installing the same module in the correct folder and then re-enabling it?</div><div>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?</div>

<div>Do I need to recreate the entire site from scratch?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div>Best Regards,</div><div>James R Stone</div><div><a href="mailto:fndtn357@gmail.com" target="_blank">fndtn357@gmail.com</a></div><div>

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