Install History

Go to System → Logs → Install/Upgrade History.

Install/Upgrade History records every change made to your store's installed code: extensions installed, upgraded, uninstalled, or deleted; backups created automatically before those changes; and any core upgrade run from the admin. Use it to confirm a change went through, identify which administrator made it, find the backup that was taken alongside it, or investigate a failed upgrade.

What writes entries here

• Extension Manager: writes install, uninstall, and delete rows when an extension is installed, uninstalled, or had its files removed.

• Package Installer: writes upgrade rows when an extension is upgraded via Get Extensions or a manual package upload.

• Backup tool: writes a backup row each time a backup is created, either manually or as part of an install or upgrade.

• Core upgrader: writes upgrade rows during a core upgrade, and an error row if a core upgrade step fails (the Extension Name column then describes what failed, for example, Failed to upgrade core file).

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Columns

The grid is sorted by Date Added and shows:

• #: row number in the current view.

• Date Added: when the event was recorded.

• Type: the kind of event. Possible values are install, upgrade, uninstall, delete, error, and backup.

• Extension Name: the extension or package identifier. Core-upgrade entries store a descriptive label here (for example, Core upgrade or Upgrade core file: …).

• Version: version installed, upgraded to, or uninstalled.

• Backup Date: when the matching backup was created (populated for backup entries; usually empty for the other types).

• Backup File: filename of the backup. When the file still exists in your AbanteCart backup directory, the filename is clickable and downloads the backup directly. When the file is no longer on disk, the filename shows as plain text.

• User Name: the administrator user who performed the action.

Filter

A Type selector sits above the grid and is the only filtering control on the page. The dropdown offers five values:

• Error: an install, upgrade, uninstall, or delete event that did not complete.

• Delete: extension files removed from disk.

• Upgrade: extension or core upgraded to a new version.

• Install: extension or package installed.

• Uninstall: extension uninstalled (extension data may remain on disk).

Rows of type backup are written to the same table when AbanteCart takes a backup, but the Type filter does not include a backup option. To see backup entries, leave the filter empty and look for rows where Type is backup in the grid.

Rows are visually distinguished by their event type: install and upgrade share one row style, delete and error share another, uninstall has its own, and backup rows render with the default style.

Download a backup from history

To download the backup that was created alongside an upgrade or install, click the filename in the Backup File column. The link appears only when the file is still in your AbanteCart backup directory.

Delete the entire history

Click Delete History at the top of the page to remove every record from the Install/Upgrade History table.

The actual backup files are not removed. They stay in your AbanteCart backup directory on the server. Deleting the history only empties the audit table; it does not uninstall any extension, touch any backup file on disk, or revert any change you made.

Clearing the history is irreversible. Once removed, you lose the audit trail of which administrator installed or upgraded what, and when, and the Backup File column download links for past entries go with it (the files on disk remain, but you no longer have a row in the grid pointing to them).