restore a backup?

This is where versioning of masterpages (and javascript, css, ...) would come in handy !

You can just copy the contents from the masterpage in the db.cmsTemplate table into a new masterpage that you created using the Umbraco backend. delete the masterpage and create it again (take a backup first, i'm not resonsible if this doesn't work as expected)

There could be an issue with changing nodeId's, so make sure you take backups before you try anything.

Hi Rik,

thanks for your reply, but that is not an option to me, as this sounds like a serious bug. Of course templates won't get deleted that often, but this one is bad. I've looked up the code, but have to do this again tonight.

Cheers,
André

I didn't took a look at the code again, but gave it a try on a clean machine, that has never seen umbraco before.

So, this is my master template:

<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="/umbraco/masterpages/default.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolderDefault" runat="server">
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder Id="DefaultContentPlaceHolder" runat="server">
        <!-- Insert default "Level1ContentPlaceHolder" markup here -->
    </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</asp:Content>

And here is the child template:

<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="/masterpages/Level1.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>
<asp:content ContentPlaceHolderId="DefaultContentPlaceHolder" runat="server">
    <umbraco:Item field="metaDescription" runat="server"></umbraco:Item>
</asp:content>

After they get deleted from disk, umbraco recreates those in /masterpages/ folder as follows:

Master template:

<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/umbraco/masterpages/default.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolderDefault" runat="server">
<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/umbraco/masterpages/default.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolderDefault" runat="server">
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder Id="DefaultContentPlaceHolder" runat="server">
        <!-- Insert default "Level1ContentPlaceHolder" markup here -->
    </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</asp:Content>
</asp:Content>

Child template:

<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/masterpages/Level1.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="Level1ContentPlaceHolder" runat="server">
<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="/masterpages/Level1.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>
<asp:content ContentPlaceHolderId="DefaultContentPlaceHolder" runat="server">
    <umbraco:Item field="metaDescription" runat="server"></umbraco:Item>
</asp:content>
</asp:Content>

I've tried with source and binary (each v4.0.3) distribution, but both behave the same. I guess there are some logical quirks within the code that re-creates the masterpage files first and then writes it to the database (shouldn't it first get saved to db an d then to disk?)

Cheers,
André

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