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11 years 10 months ago #52625 by new2joom
Hi,
A new version of Simple Image Gallery was announced in Joomla backend (v2.5.11) and I just clicked the box and clicked update. An error came up
JInstaller: :Install: Can not find XML setup file
It seemed to have installed anyway but it was not activated so I activated it and deactivated the old one and the old image galleries seemed to work. Ok, fine...
Logged out and, after a while, logged in again and there it was once more...same version 3.0 was again announced as new update in Joomla. Ok, something is wrong here, followed the link to your website and saw that the old version should be uninstalled too. That info should have been in the text that comes up with installation of 3.0. Proceeded to uninstall the old version (don't know what version number it is?) and there were two errors
Failed to delete /opt/lampp/htdocs/devjoomla25/administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_content_jw_simpleImageGallery.ini
Failed to delete /opt/lampp/htdocs/devjoomla25/administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_content_jw_simpleImageGallery.sys.ini
Those files do not exist but files with similar names
.../en-GB.plg_content_jw_simpleimagegallery.ini
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.../en-GB.plg_content_jw_simpleimagegallery.sys.ini
do exist. I take it these files should be manually deleted? The old version has disappeared from the list of Joomla extensions so it is supposedly uninstalled...?

Well, sort of messy install/uninstall procedure but good extension.
Hope to hear from you.
/R

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11 years 10 months ago #52626 by JoomlaWorks
Replied by JoomlaWorks on topic Re: Install v3.0 and uninstall older version
That is the reason why we ditched the camelcase name "jw_simpleImageGallery" to a simpler one "jw_sig". Because some servers treated jw_simpleImageGallery as jw_simpleimagegallery and could not recognize language files and other weird stuff...

In any case, make sure the old one is uninstalled. The new one has been installed just fine. If you still see the 3.0.0 update, it's because the update results in joomla are cached. Simply do a "purge cache" in the joomla updater page (top right, in the buttons) and you should be fine.

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11 years 10 months ago #52627 by new2joom
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Thanx for quick reply. But, there is still something...
I have this developer installation where stuff is tested etc and then the real installation (it's probably a common setup). So, there still was a Simple Image Gallery v3.0 under the Discover tab in Extensions Manager, for some reason(?), and in the developer site I was stupid enough to just select it and click Install. Not good... There were loads of errors (which didn't get saved) but now I have a _jw_sig in the plugins and it can't be uninstalled, these errors pop up when I try:
Plugin Uninstall: Manifest file invalid or not found
Error uninstalling plugin.
It's some sort of junk plugin that can't be removed. When selected in the plugin list it gives an error
500 - An error has occurred.
The file _jw_sig.xml could not be found.
Still the image galleries work. I have just left it in the real site, it is a selectable option in Discover there too, but I hope you tell me how to remove it without "side effects".
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