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I recently had to restore my Drupal+CiviCRM installation, using the Drupal Backup and Migrate module. The Drupal pages came back just fine, but the pure CiviCRM pages were WSOD. A lengthy error message in a Drupal page that called information from CiviCRM (events) said that there was a Smarty error. Smarty could not find the templates_c directory in CiviCRM. Sure enough, it didn't restore. I was able to get CiviCRM running by changing the name of the civicrm.settings.php file and treating it like a new install, giving it the MySQL db name, username, and password that I used before. This restored CiviCRM to functionality, but I lost all my data, including Drupal user data. I reloaded most of the data and got CiviCRM working (without the user data - not many of them, and some were spammers from before I activated protections). Now I have to do another restore and I would like to save the data that I entered since the first one. Is there a way to recreate the templates_c directories that will not wipe all my data? Thanks for any advice.

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