Quote Originally Posted by FukienMan View Post
Thanks DarkAngel,

Most of what you said makes perfect since. I have not installed any Mods yet myself. This is my first attempt. I am using Clyde Jones' Desert Noon Template. It has these features:
Features:
* Fixed width 3 column display
* Colors: Styled in Sage Green, Yellow, Tan and Blue.
* Customized button set included.
* Per-page CSS stylesheets to style individual pages.
* Better Categories Sidebox installed.
* Order Steps (tableless) installed.
* Date in Header.
* Tested using Firefox, IE7, Opera, Safari.

I would think that the three I bolded above could have problems with files that might want to be overwritten. My plan is to make 2 backups of my site to a portable hardrive (dedicated to web stuff). I will open one of them and add all the files as you said from IH3 and then go back to my web server and delete the test folder I have that contains my site and upload the new test site (backup) I worked on above.

My question is this. When I am copying files from IH3 to my backup site, as mentioned above, when I attempt to copy a file that already exists, it will want to overwrite this file. Is it at this time that I say "No" and then put the two files into WinMerge and compare and merge the files? Right? How do I know where in the file the merge is to take place? Does the merged part of the file just go at the end of the file or do I have to know exactly where it is to be placed?? I hope that wasn't too confusing, it sure was for me I have not used WinMerge yet, this will be my first attempt. Hopefully not my last.

It is late so I will look for an answer tomorrow. Thanks for all your help, greatly appreciated.
Of the 3 you have bolded I am not sure that they will have anything to do with this mod.
Without any mods installed and IF this is not a paid for theme (many change the coding so much that it makes installing mods a real problem....you might not have troubles with just overwriting the originals...but put them aside for safe keeping, just in case

these will be the ones to look out for :

From required edit folder
your admin folder/includes/modules/category_product_listing.php

includes/modules/pages/pop_image (if you have it if not then just upload this folder otherwise the header_php.php file

and the popup_image additional/header_php.php

your template/popup_images_additional (if you have none then upload entire folder

the items from the Install file folder should be alright to upload each to its respective folders

as for the editing of files...I use my macintosh to manually edit anything for the servers I work on...I tried winmerge and it and notepad++ totally confused the heck out of me. I use text wrangle for macintosh to edit...it and bbedit