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Hi all,
hi Andreas.

I am running TMS since a few years and hadn?t touched it in the last year. End of february I?ve tried to do a little template change and noticed the same day here on vb.org, that TMS has an update and a patch available, so I?ve installed them first.

Since this moment TMS wasn?t working proper anymore, means: I couldn?t do new changes. Even though the changes I?ve made before the update seemd to work as before.

Today I had to learn it the hard way, to never change a running system: I had a look at my AdSense-Account and I was shocked about the loss of clicks and revenue. Costs for site and server are barely covered by the revenue and the loss of 70% clicks was some kind of wake-up call.

It took a while to notice, that 2 custom ad-placements I have created years ago were gone. They are still in the TMS and TMS tells me, they are working - but they don?t. The error message is saying:

A curly bracket wasn?t closed. Do you have inserted a curly bracket without content between ( {} )? If so, enclose the complete code with <vb:literal>Your code</vb:literal>.

Has anyone an idea, what I can do now?

I?m now in a situation, that I can?t do changes to the showthread template. Wether through TMS nor through direct template edits. It always displays this error message as shown above. Even when trying to save the original non-altered showthread template.

-- Edit--

Problem solved.
This error occured because of this mod: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=308620 . It?s now in the graveyard for a good reason (the idea sounds promising though, but the code has to be rewritten). For the other 3 who have that addon installed - after you have uninstalled this addon you HAVE TO revert your SHOWTHREAD template or you will have the risk of code fragments still sitting in the SHOWTHREAD template. The uninstall routine hadn?t worked properly in my installation and left changes in the template that caused that error. May be one of the mods could attach this info to the Addon in the graveyard.