OK...figured it out...

Once I placed the template file in the template directory; on my system, it is called "%%3F^3FE^3FE98188%%db%3Asystem_block_dummy.html.php"

I had to insert one record into the database:

/**
INSERT INTO `xoops_tplfile` ( `tpl_id` , `tpl_refid` , `tpl_module` , `tpl_tplset` , `tpl_file` , `tpl_desc` , `tpl_lastmodified` , `tpl_lastimported` , `tpl_type` )
VALUES (
'', '1', 'system', 'default', 'system_block_dummy.html', 'Dummy template for custom blocks or blocks without templates', 'now()', 'now()', 'block'
);
**/

Once done, my custom blocks are back baaabeeeeeee!!!

Good luck
-Rob

wow...you have nailed my exact issue!!! I just upgraded through Fantastico to 2.0.13 and have lost all of the custom block content! So, I installed 2.0.13 locally and created a custom block. I found that during the upgrade version, I lost my system_block_dummy.html file in my default template. I believe that this is the root-cause, as the database record for my upgrade version matches my local (new install) version exactly (I was thinking that a table may have changed structure).

I cloned the template set as "upgrade" and tried to upload a new system_block_dummy.html (downloaded from my local version), but the error message it gives is "Template file system_block_dummy.html does not need to be installed (PHP files using this template file does not exist)". I tried clicking the generate button, but it states that the "Selected file does not exist)"

I re-examined the directories and found that my upgrade version is missing the php template file that corresponds to the system_block_dummy.html "%%3F^3FE^3FE98188%%db%3Asystem_block_dummy.html.php", but haven't figured out how to install it on the upgrade version...

done for the night! I'll try again tomorrow. Hopefully, someone else will have better luck!

-Rob

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Rob

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