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Can't Access Templates

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Hello,

I'm running MT 3.33 and planning on upgrading to 4.21 soon. However, I just discovered that I cannot access my templates in 3.33. When I click on templates I get this:

maketext doesn't know how to say: SYSTEMTEMPLATEPRIVACYLOGIN as needed at lib/MT.pm line 921

It looks like it may be something left over from running Arvind's Privacy 2 beta a while back for a family blog. The family blog and Privacy have been removed from my system, however. I checked for uninstall instructions for Privacy, but found none. I simply deleted the Privacy directories from my plugins folder in both the cgi-bin and the mt-static.

The blog functions normally as far as posting and commenting goes, I just cannot access my templates.

I did try to contact Arvind on this, but got no response. I posted on his forum as well with the same results. I'm ready to upgrade and wondering how to find out if this is something I need to fix prior to upgrading and if so, how to fix it.

Thanks

Reported on Movable Type 3.x

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  • Hi Doug, I'm sorry I haven't replied to you - I've just been so ridiculously busy.

    Try this MySQL command:

    delete from mt_template where template_name LIKE "%Privacy%" or template_type LIKE "%privacy%";
    
  • Arvind,

    Thanks for the info, but can I trouble you for a bit more info?

    BTW - Here's the MySQL command for those, like me, who cannot read it on the page (all I see is a hor. scoll bar):

    delete from mt_template where template_name LIKE "%Privacy%" or template_type LIKE "%privacy%";

    First, can you tell me what this is intended to do? I'm not that familiar at all with directly editing my database. I've done it, and I think I can find my way around doing it, but it helps me a lot if i know what I'm trying to accomplish rather that just a specific command to run.

    Second, I'm not sure how I'd run that command. I have access to my database through PHPMyAdmin but I'm not sure I can run specific commands. I'm also not sure where I'd run it or if that's the exact command I'd enter. I'm assuming so. That s why knowing what I'm trying to accomplish would be a big help. I may have to go about this via PHPMyAdmin rather thant he command line.

  • OK, I think I've deciphered it actually. What you're doing is looking through the mttemplate table for any entry that contains the word 'privacy' in either the templatename or template_type field, is that right?

    If so, I can do that through PHPMyAdmin pretty easily, there are only 68 rows in mt_template.

  • Thanks, that did the trick.

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