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I have just updated to 1.0.1 and when logging in to Backlite I got the update messages (successful) and my test-site looks as before, but when I go to Designer I can't find my templates anymore, they are all gone. Same for Pages and Menu-sets. The uploaded images are also not shown anymore, although the site itself still uses them.

I am pretty sure I have followed the update process as described in the readme. I am not too fuzzed about it, because that's what a test-site is for, but need to understand where I have possibly gone off the rails.

Any suggestions?

After spending a rather relaxed few hours for setting up a Backlight test site in a sub-domain, I have to say: I am impressed!

This is by far less stressful than the experience I went through when upgrading from CE3 to CE4 (which was to be honest to a certain degree a self-made problem). Additionally I have learned a bit while using CE4, but most of my worries have evaporated over the weekend. If I wouldn't have done some special things with Stage I would feel ready to switch, but will probably continue playing a bit with the design before I go ahead.

The small isue I have detected is the following: When creating an Album Set within Galleries via Lightroom and leave the selection of the thumbnail set to "Random" I get nothing. I have to deliberately select an image otherwise no thumbnail is shown. I am pretty sure, CE4 pulled a thumbnail up from one of the contained albums, no?

But all in all, a very easy transition, cool stuff! Give me the Stage functionality and I can go back shooting (apologies for putting up such a request, but  it's all your fault, it went really too smooth ;-) !

I have installed Backlight in  a subdomain - no problems at all and this was all really fast and easy. That was a good start!
I am now exploring the product and have run into the following problem:

In:  Backlight->Designer->Menu Sets I have cloned the Default set. Worked. I can now open the cloned set but when I then try to save it, I get the following error message:

Something went wrong
Update query failed with error: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 14 unable to open database file sql: 'UPDATE `menu_item` SET `url`=\'about/\', `page_id`=\'\', `album_id`=\'\', `album_index_typeid`=\'\', `sort_order`=\'2\', `title`=\'About\', `id`=\'16\', `external`=\'no\', `menu_set_id`=\'4\', `parent_id`=\'0\', `modified`=\'2016-05-07 04:54:35\' WHERE `id`=\'16\'' params: array ( ) in PdoExtended.php on line 552

This happens, even if I do not change anything, just trying to save the opened clone. I have made the /backlight/data directory writable (at least I think this is the case) -> it is at 770.

Any idea where my fault is? Don't get it.

Thanks Alfred

PS:
When trying to activate Custom CSS, I get this (similiar error message):
Unable to save settings: Update query failed with error: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 14 unable to open database file
sql:
'UPDATE `template_setting` SET
`template_id`=\'9\',
`modified`=\'2016-05-07 06:44:15\',
`value`=\'on\'
WHERE `template_id`=\'9\' AND `setting_id`=\'custom_stylesheet.enabled\''
params:
array (
) in PdoExtended.php on line 552

Is this possibly related? Other save operations like activating a masthead work.

Hi there, I have the following question in regard of migrating albums from CE4 to Backlight:

Some of my albums are based on Stage templates, making use of the 20/20 capability (comparing images by the use of a slider). I understand that this functionality is not available from Backlight yet (hope it will come in not too long time ? .... )
Now, what would be the right thing to do when migrating? Do I need to remove all those albums from Publisher first, before migrating or do I just migrate everything as is? What to expect in the latter case?
Thanks Alfred