No page at all after fork

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This is my first experience with CC5 so I downloaded Flexcrete to learn how to edit and add content. I started making changes then realized from tutorials and posts in the forums that I should make a copy of the packaged theme so I didn't lose my edits when the original packaged theme updates. I copied the package from the concrete/themes folder to the /themes folder with a new name (flexcrete_2), renamed all the flexcrete folders in the new folder to flexcrete_2, changed the info in the description.txt to the new name, and tried to rename the png file ( I never found flexcrete.png so I skipped this step). I made sure I cleared the cache also.

All of my old references to flexcrete are now flexcrete_2 in the new folder under /themes. When I went into the dashboard/themes there is no sign of my custom theme. Someone on the forum told me I needed to remove my old flexcrete theme before installing the new one and to change the controller.php to refer to the new name also. I did that to both the controller.php files I found in the new folder and subfolders and still no sign of my flexcrete_2 custom theme. So I thought maybe I needed to signout and then back in. Once I did that I can't login anymore so I am completely stuck.

There is no dashboard anymore and I get the following error:

An unexpected error occurred.

File not found. All themes need default.php and view.php files in them. Consult concrete5 documentation on how to create these files.

 
enlil replied on at Permalink Reply
enlil
remove the copy you made and recopy it from scratch leaving all the naming intact. then just be sure to always edit the copy in root/themes
julieo00 replied on at Permalink Reply
I deleted the flexcrete_2 folder and all it's files from root/themes and then I recopied the concrete/packages/flexcrete folder to the root/themes folder and did not rename anything. When I go to my project there is still no dashboard and the only thing appearing on my home page is the logo and the footer and when I click on "Sign In to Edit this Site " it gives me the same error message. I don't know if this is a cache issue but I don't know how to clear it if it is.
enlil replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
enlil
OK you are copying the whole package. make sure you copy root/packages/flexcrete/themes/flexcrete folder to root/themes and you should be good to go.
julieo00 replied on at Permalink Reply
That helped! ...it's ugly and still no dashboard but at least there is a page there. I have two messages appearing on the screen that appear to be related to the header and footer. The way the page looks it seems like no css is being applied.

The first message is:

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/julieo00/public_html/concrete/themes/flexcrete/elements/header.php' for inclusion (include_path='/home/julieo00/public_html/libraries/3rdparty:/home/julieo00/public_html/concrete/libraries/3rdparty:.:/usr/local/php52/pear') in /home/julieo00/public_html/concrete/core/libraries/view.php on line 484

The second message is:
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/julieo00/public_html/concrete/themes/flexcrete/elements/footer.php' for inclusion (include_path='/home/julieo00/public_html/libraries/3rdparty:/home/julieo00/public_html/concrete/libraries/3rdparty:.:/usr/local/php52/pear') in /home/julieo00/public_html/concrete/core/libraries/view.php on line 484
julieo00 replied on at Permalink Reply
Oops! I forgot to login because I was so happy to see a page! After logging in I do have the dashboard but all the content I had on the page is gone except the logo. It's definitely better...Thank you very much!

Will I automatically edit the version in the root/themes folder or do I have to direct that by setting a path?