I accidentally deleted one of the 4 directories in the /skins/default/ directory on my VeraLite. Now my user interface is just a bunch of unformatted data. How can I recover my user interface? I sent an email to Micasaverde, but got no response.
Trakker, this can be recovered. When you “delete” files from the flash storage that were shipped with Vera, you are really just hiding them.
Get yourself SSH access to the Vera and watch this space.
Ok, here is what you need to do.
# cd /overlay/www/cmh/skins/defaultOr wherever the parent directory of the thing you deleted, with /overlay at the front. “/overlay” is magical.
# ls -lYou should see the thing you deleted, like:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Apr 17 14:31 victim -> (overlay-whiteout)That’s the deletion, which you now need to delete:
# rm victimObviously, for “victim” you put the thing that you accidentally removed.
If you recursively removed a directory then you may have to recursively apply this fix.
futzle,
Thanks very much for the fast reply. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to figure out what I deleted. Is there some way to just return the VeraLite to its original (factory) condition, so that I can start again?
If you dig through every subdirectory of /overlay doing what I said, you will undelete every file you deleted. That might be tedious, but you have nothing but time.
It might be that you can achieve the same effect by restoring from a MiOS backup. MCV support will know.
futzle,
Thanks for all your help! It looks like I got lucky. When I logged into micasaverde.com/setup, it said there was a new firmware version available. I downloaded it and all my troubles disappeared. It looks like the directory I accidentally deleted was /skins/default/css/. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find that directory in the /overlay/ directory either.
BTW, I use WinSCP for Vera maintenance, instead of SSH. It’s much easier to use (and allows me to accidentally delete directories much faster 
).
Agree WinSCP is good