I have been unable to find the correct database item that contains the deleted Admin file to restore it or undelete- I took a very late night to load the SQL Server 2008 Management Studio and even longer to figure out the connection parameters.
Where would the Admin menu be - I found host pages- but not Admin pages in dbo?
I was also told that this might work: (for any item you are missing)
If you are already having dnn site running and you uninstalled the DDR menu by mistake, or you are upgrading the site or DDR menu and that caused this problem, there are some ways to fix this.
Download and setup local copy of fresh dnn installation and do following:
1. Open web.config of fresh install, and search ddr in it. Copy the DDR entry from it and paste it to appropriate section of your site's web.config.
2. from fresh install replace /admin/menus and /desktopmodules/ddrmenu folders to your site folder.
3. download
http://dnnddrmenu.codeplex.com/releas... and paste it into /install/module folder
4. Browser for yoursite.com/Install/install.aspx?mode=InstallResources and that's it
In my case, we were trying to upgrade the DDR menu and found the broken site that was restored using above steps.
Comments - suggestions?
With thanks always
Mike