solved Oddness since latest updates?

Ok, so not sure if these things were 'caused' by the latest updates I applied this morning, but began seeing three strange 'style' effect/setting changes on my sites today. I had not done 'anything' to my site except apply this morning's updates first thing this morning. All was fine yesterday when I went to bed.
I guess I should address them in three separate threads, so here is the first weirdness I need to fix. Have tried various things including looking/comparing my older backup templates etc but can't seem to solve these issues and I'm at a loss.
Item #1:

Though my site's custom skin Wrapper remains the correct color, and also my Footer remains the correct color, suddenly the middle part (background of the whole site, in the middle section of the SIDES) has reverted to an older color. ??!
I went into my custom active skin's Style settings and went through the usual places like site.css, html.css, base.css... all that I could think of and on all tabs- and made sure any lingering appearances of the 'old' color were replaced by the newer color# (the same # as in my footer and wrapper). I've saved all changes, integ check, refresh browser, did a template search for the color #, even restarted my computer.

Nothing seems to get my correct color back for those side bar areas...it's the dangdest thing. What am I missing? Not understanding why this reverted back like this- I have had the new color nicely in place for months now, and hadn't changed anything. Like I said several other odd style changes have occurred today (!) but I'll keep to this one thing here in this thread so as to try to fix them methodically one at a time. Anyone else noticing site style details that look changed today?

Here is a screenshot- not easy to see the difference in the middle color so much, but the wrapper and footer colors are slightly greyer and are the desired color. The correct color is supposed to be #D1C7A1, while the 'wrong older' color that snuck back is #D3C58D.

Everything was just fine last night. So puzzled.



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updated by @strumelia: 04/27/17 12:55:41AM

I'm assuming you did not update a skin? There's no CSS changes in the core that would affect this.


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The only skin changes I've made today were in trying to correct a couple of these new oddness that appeared today.
Another weird change for example is that suddenly the data text in the modules of my dashboard are in giant wacky different crayon colored letters instead of the usual plain small black text. Nutty!...but htat's for another thread tomorrow i think.


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updated by @strumelia: 01/20/17 07:37:55PM

Gee...should i 'restore skin' from yesterday maybe?... I only have an hour left before midnight when the system backs up the skins again. !


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(just now made a clone of this messed up skin just in case, but didn't make the new backup clone into the active skin)
Update: I'm going to try restoring yesterday's custom skin to see if it fixes this stuff. Then i'll post back here.


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updated by @strumelia: 01/20/17 08:45:21PM

Ok, I restored my active skin to the Jan 19 version using the DB Restore. Strangely, none of today's new oddities were fixed.
I can't understand it.
Guess I'm just going to concentrate on fixing the color of the background at the right and left sides of my site so they once again match the wrapper and footer. I thought that was in one of my custom skin css files- like site.css or html.css ....but I've checked/changed all those and it still stays stuck with the old color. Hmm, I thought my custom skin would override anything else for that kind of setting. Either I'm having a senior moment that's lasting for hours, or there's something wacky going on.


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New wackiness to report-
The skin CLONE I just made for safekeeping before restoring to yesterday's skin- is not there. I KNOW I just made a clone, and named it carefully. Now it's not there, and in looking on my server via FTP I see it's not there under skins. Going to make another custom skin clone right now and will see if it sticks.


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The new clone seems to be there now. I'm thinking that maybe the skin 'restore' restored my cautionary backup skin form tonight instead of restoring to Jan 19th (yesterday's) skin backup? that might explain why the glitches didn't get fixed...but seems unlikely. Getting more confusing yet. Why was my previous skin clone from an hour before ..gone?
Ok- I'm JUST going to keep focusing on getting the background color thing fixed up! =8-p But right now it's after midnight so will have to get back to this tomorrow! At least my site is up and running, so I dont have to panic.


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One last thing- just now got a notice (right after midnight) that all of this morning's site updates were now waiting for me to apply, including the Core update. So....I went and RE-applied all the very same updates that i already APPLIED successfully this morning. Does this happen simply because i restored a skin from yesterday's skin backups? Feel like I'm losing my mind. =8-o G'nite!


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Can see the background color is different for #wrapper. The cause of the issue is in this CSS:

Remove the background-color: #d3c58d; to fix the issue. Im not sure where that is in your site, can help locate it if you cant find it.

guess: you cloned a skin, then restored the site from a backup, the backup state was in the past at a time before the skin had been cloned so reverting to that state reverted to a time before the new cloned skin had been created.

Now it really sounds like you reverted the whole site, not just a skin.

Perhaps that happened, it's hard to tell cause things were slow last night on my site.
But I can say with absolute CERTAINTY that when i used to Restore function, I had ONLY restore Skin checked, and had the previous day jan 19 checked in the dropdown choice. In fact I TRIPLE-checked one last time before pressing the Restore button- that I had ONLY the skin option checked, definitely NOT to restore any other database or site restore option. Perhaps you can check on this to be sure the Restore module Tool is indeed restoring ONLY a skin when it's used to restore a skin? If by chance it's not working correctly, it could cause a huge problem for someone at some point.


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Michael, thank you. I've got things fixed now.

Through my ACP/active skin/style/ html.css and site.css settings, yesterday I had removed/updated only one or two references to the 'old' color #d3c58d (which had been changed months ago but popped back up oddly yesterday). But this didn't fix anything as per last night. (I should add that all along, my wrapper .png image has stayed correct color, as has my top wrapper and bottom footer color. Only the middle background on either side reverted to an old color.)

The solution was: just now I actually downloaded both my html.css and site.css files via FTP, and when I opened them on my desktop I saw there were like FIVE places for 'background' where it was still set as #d3c58d. (even though these were not seen this way in my skin 'Style' tab settings.) I changed them manually and uploaded those -and that worked...old color background is now gone.
What I can't figure out is WHY that popped up yesterday that way when i haven't used that color in my site background in MONTHS now. whattheheck?? Truthfully, I can't imagine ever figuring these 'yesterday bizarrities' out... as to why they happened. Just going to try to fix things back again and hope it doesn't happen again.

THANKS for your help here, I'm marking this particular color issue solved but I'll be starting new threads for the other two oddnesses that suddenly happened yesterday that I may need suggestions on how to fix back again.


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Perhaps they were changed in the skin first, then updated over via the STYLE tab.

My preferred way to do things is in the file system. I don't usually use the STYLE, TEMPLATE tabs except for quick testing.

We have a tracker open to test out the restore scenario. Hopefully its not reverting more than it should, but if it is we'll fix it.

Thanks.