Greetings, all. I've made a small mess of menus, and hope this is easily fixed...
I have two (sparse, modest) Drupal sites operational. I have a third, local site I use for (often questionable) experiments.
On my local site, I reconfigured the administration menus into something much easier for me to use, moving many items out of the Navigation menu and into separate menus of like items: content-related settings in one menu, log-related items into another menu, etc.
I liked it so much, I wanted to migrate the same setup to my operational sites. Rearraging the long list of administrative menu items, for each operational site, would be a huge job, so I looked for a more direct way to do it. I was about to pester the forums, but decided to try my own hand first.
The answer seemed obvious: export the _menu_ table from my local site's db, and replace each operational site's menu table with that.
And it seemed to work great, too. The operational sites gained the nifty new menu structure. All was well.
But then I realized the problems:
1) Existing menus that were unique to each operational site have disappeared. Doh! This should have been obvious from the start! [slaps forehead, says "what in Hastur's name was I thinking?"]
It's not a big problem for me; I didn't even notice it right away, as the operational sites didn't have much in the way of extra menus. It wouldn't be hard to re-create them by hand. Except: