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[greenedit Friend greeneditJoin date: August 2008Posts: 31Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 12]

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Hey all, I had an issue with some people I paid to help me with my template. They we’re web guys but apperently not Joomla guys. Anyway, turns out the template doesnt function properly anymore.
I’m still very new to all this so I fiqure I just uninstall the template then reinstall so as to get it back to normal. Also, I gave those guys my Admin pword AND server PWORD. So I guess I need to change those as well.

Is there a preffered way to do all of that, to do a clean uninstall and then reinstall with new pwords?

I have CPanel and I’m on Rochen.
Template is JA MESOLITE

My computer is a MAC

Thanks to any help

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

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first thing, si abcklup the site, even though its broken, I recommend joomlapack

then

Did you use quickstart or did you just install the template

are you using joomla 1.5.x or 1.0.15

If you used just the template and not the quickstart
go to your template manager and assign another template as the default,.
the delete the mesolite template.
then reinstall the template
that should give you fresh files again
go to template manager and make mesolite the default,
it should be back to the original

and now you should be able to mess it all up again 🙂
thats how we all learned.

now, if that did not work, you can delete the whole site and install the quickstart package and your can astart all over again.

or if you want to keep your content items, you can install the quickstart and use you exiting database and NOT INSTALL sample data. This way it will be a clean install and your content will be there, you will have to reinstall any components, modules and plugins, but that will only take a few minutes

but, its always best to start fresh and in an environment where you can start over from scratch until you get the hang of joomla.

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