Weird template editing issue - help!
 

One of my clients installed X-Cart Gold 4.4.1 and the Artistic Tunes (Business) template is set as the default skin. I'm trying to customize this design, but any changes uploaded into the "/skin/artistictunes_business/" directory or the "/skin/common_files/" directory, are not showing on the site! I tried clearing the template cache - no go.

Also, when looking at the source code, this is the CSS file being referenced: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/loader_7270f8c575ccf8a89064292fcbcf7489.css" />

I've edited other 4.4 skins with no problem, so I have no idea what's going on with this site. Any ideas?

Re: Weird template editing issue - help!
 

Is the js and css compression enabled there? Maybe is a caching issue contents ttl?

Re: Weird template editing issue - help!
 

Turn off the CSS compression while you develop the site...

It's under Settings -> General Settings -> General (Under Core Options)... Near the bottom of the screen under the "CSS and JavaScript optimization tools" section, uncheck the "Use speed-up tool for CSS"...

Re: Weird template editing issue - help!
 

Thank you! That makes sense. Now I see the info in the source code, but template changes still don't seem to be taking.

Re: Weird template editing issue - help!
 

It seems that this compression thing does not work correctly with additional templates, for example product rating images are broken...no matter which template is selected.

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Anybody else had issues with this not working at all (i.e. not combining files) ?

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I think my editing issue is being caused by upload permissions. I noticed this morning that I was getting an error message when uploading files. I tried FTP, SFTP, and SCP, and the all say the file isn't being uploaded. So at least now I know I'm not crazy! Hopefully the host can resolve this issue.

Re: Weird template editing issue - help!
 

I got the same as 7dana after 4.4.0->4.4.1 upgrade

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I just upgraded to 4.4.1 and can't get the loader to work for my client still. I've cleared template cache, cleared browser cache, forced cache generation in x-cart, still 40+ css and js files being loaded. They are on the vivid dreams aquamarine template which I'm wondering if it's the issue.

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I tried with the default template - still not working... strange.

Re: Weird template editing issue - help!
 

I use the default 2 column template so it is not the template. It is the css compression. It worked just fin ein 4.4.0 so the upgrade actually breaks things instead of fixing them

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If you are only seeing issues with css not loading in IE - it possibly is related to this:
http://john.albin.net/css/ie-stylesheets-not-loading

I've run into this on Drupal sites, where it would only be an issue during development before css optimization, but they also have mods available to overcome it.