how to prevent phrases to be overwritten

[Lionel]

I changed some generic English phrases and saved them in the english language box. Everytime I install a major hack, all changes get wiped out and the box is empty. How can I prevent that?

[Zachery]

I changed some generic English phrases and saved them in the english language box. Everytime I install a major hack, all changes get wiped out and the box is empty. How can I prevent that?
What hacks are destroying your translations?

You are translating and not editing the real phrase correct?

[Lionel]

any hack that is recreating phrases. That happened twice. I have french and english. French remained untouched. And the modified english phrase was copied in english box. That box gets cleared

[nexialys]

@Lionel.. if this phrase is generic (from the vb install) it's not supposed to delete even when a new hack.. the goal of reconstruct the phrases is not to refresh these... but if you install hacks that overwrite your old phrases, maybe these phrases are the same...

[Lionel]

I've got two specific instances that I noticed

1-the phrase vbulletin message was replaced by mysite Message. Vbulletin Message reappeared

2-I installed the phrase mods from vbulletin template in PM to include the body of the message in the email that user receives on new PM notification. After I stopped getting the body, I went in there and saw that the english box was empty, therefore using the generic one.

I believe the last hack I did was vbjournal.