I installed the new K2 without any issues, however, when I pulled the front end, nothing looks the way I had it before.  The release notes specifically say that the templates won't be overwritten no way no how.. please advise?

If your template was placed in componentes/com_k2/templates and was called like the Original it is overwritten.
www.brain-style.de/K2-Templating/Lesson-1-K2-Templating-Vorbereitung.html

what do you mean called like the original? I had created folders for the various templates as instructed. It doesn't look like those files were overwritten according to the date of the files. However, I DO know that the look is different than it was before the upgrade.

As far as I aware, the only file affected relate to the core K2 files, within Components etc.
Troponin is correct and is referring to the base K2 template called default.

If you may have created K2 templates outside of the K2 component folder and in your joomla templates folder, then these will not be affected.
I have written an item regarding theming here.

K2Joom


Mike C said:what do you mean called like the original? I had created folders for the various templates as instructed. It doesn't look like those files were overwritten according to the date of the files. However, I DO know that the look is different than it was before the upgrade.

Mike C said:what do you mean called like the original? I had created folders for the various templates as instructed. It doesn't look like those files were overwritten according to the date of the files. However, I DO know that the look is different than it was before the upgrade.


At least in the last version I've used, all templates shared the same CSS file, so perhaps while your custom template files were untouched, the shared CSS file was overwritten?

Have you got the K2 Style enabled or disabled in the K2 parameters?

wirecreative said:Mike C said:what do you mean called like the original? I had created folders for the various templates as instructed. It doesn't look like those files were overwritten according to the date of the files. However, I DO know that the look is different than it was before the upgrade.


At least in the last version I've used, all templates shared the same CSS file, so perhaps while your custom template files were untouched, the shared CSS file was overwritten?