Is there an easy way to reset Sugar back to its 'shipped' state?

[PaulHT]

Hi

I have made some changes on Sugar which are not working although I would love to know why - see thread 'Studio changes effect my ability to view contacts' it seems it would be best to revert to my old version I am hoping reverting to the old version will not effect the current data on my system as I know it exists but not sure how best to do a rollback without damaging the current data
Obviously I backed up my old structure prior to making changes - errr NOT!

[PaulHT]

Please read my Studio changes effect my ability to view contacts forum entry to understand this fix prior to reading the below resolution as this is cse specific.

What I have done myself to resolve this
I do not recommend this unless you have like me failed to backup the DB before making changes in which case you should roll back to your previous version - Note - this is potentially dangerous to you database and smooth running of SugarCRM follow these insructions at you own risk - I am a newbie with Sugar CRM so thee is a large risk that I have completely upset the data or the way forms communicate with Sugar - techy peple feel free to make comments on damage this could cause it all sees to be fine now but I am not 100% sure there isn't unwanted leftovers I havent fixed

Firstly I took a backup of the SugarCRM (found in the admin screens) and MySQLDB

Then I manually deleted the new screens I had created (they were all Contact related screens) which I found in the directory below - the reason I deleted these was so that Sugar is not trying to display fields which no loger exist after the next stage.

/var/www/crm/SugarCE-Full-5.2.0d/custom/history/modules/Contacts/metadata

Then I returned to Sugar CRM and removed all the new field I had created - these are fairly obvious as they are displayed in a section of the screen above the 'default' field under the Contacts 'fields' tab

I then for safety returned to the Admin main screen and selected the 'Repair' option in an attempt to clean up any mess I had inadvertantly created.
I then selected
Quick Repair and Rebuild
Repairi Database
and all the cache clearing options

Job Done

This seems to have worked successfully - although not by the book my systems now runs fine again

[roblaus]

Deleting the custom directory and a subsequent quick repair would have done the same job. But you learned your lesson, did you?