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I have been up more or less for the past 24 hours straight trying to update my #Friendica instance, only to have a break several times to the point of even having the database messed up and needing to get my hosting provider to do a database import for me, what keeps happening is every time I do the update even though I have my customized theme completely renamed the update removes my top navbar so I lose all functionality to post or do anything it's very annoying I can't update because it breaks and when I try to import my custom theme over the broken it does not fix it I'm not sure what @Friendica Support has done to the RC to cause this and I wish I knew so I could update but I can't.
YOu can go through the list of the recet pull requests to see which files had been changed.

Sorry, I totally loose focus when trying to read your text. I wasn't able to read the whole text. Please add line breaks at appropriate places, otherwise it is extremely hard to read for me.

Concerning the problem: I still don't understand how you were able to do something to your database. Nonetheless: When you try to update the next time, please be sure that you don't apply your changes immediately and even more important: You have to clear your browser cache to make sure that you don't use old code.

After that is done, you can try to apply your changes step by step while in parallel checking if everything still works.

@Michael 🇺🇦 the entire updates where via ssh git pull, I committed my changes and even tried to cherry pick my commits, every time upgrading from Friendica 'Interrupted Fern' 2025.02-dev - 1583 to the new RC, I lost the nav bar both in stock frio and my custom frio, and as to the database I have no clue what went wrong, never could figure that one out, anyways, I guess I am going to just stay with the version I have from now on, as i really dont have a way nor the resources to set up a test instance to work the kinks out and have something of value to report.
Had you tried to clear your browser cache? Because the missing nav bar had already been reported by users and clearing the cache helped there.
@Michael 🇺🇦 yes, ctl F5 and even different browser s on different machines same missing nav bar...
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