Title: Broken plugins.php & update-core.php files – empty
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Broken plugins.php & update-core.php files – empty

 *  [MidgeACE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midgeace/)
 * (@midgeace)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pluginsphp-update-corephp-files-empty/)
 * I recently updated to 3.8.1 for this particular website (other sites I manage
   updated fine) and although all the other Dashboard pages work ok the two above
   don’t.
 * Selecting updates or plugins from the Dashboard give me an empty page and viewing
   source for these files indicated they are empty.
 * Can you please advise on a safe way of restoring these files?
 * Many thanks
    Midge

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 *  [Saravanan S, a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simplysaru/)
 * (@simplysaru)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pluginsphp-update-corephp-files-empty/#post-4720571)
 * I am not sure this will fix your issue, however I do think it is worth atry. 
   I would advise you to make a good backup before trying my suggestion. Download
   the WordPress [package ](http://wordpress.org/download/)on to your desktop and
   extract it. Now try replacing the plugins.php and the update-core.php on your
   site from the extracted files using FTP. Please make sure you are replacing the
   files and ensure the replaced files have the necessary permissions as described
   [here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions).
 *  Thread Starter [MidgeACE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midgeace/)
 * (@midgeace)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pluginsphp-update-corephp-files-empty/#post-4720672)
 * Thank you Saravanan I will give this a try.
 *  Thread Starter [MidgeACE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midgeace/)
 * (@midgeace)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pluginsphp-update-corephp-files-empty/#post-4720675)
 * Hi Saravanan
 * I gave this a try but it didn’t work. Eventually got to the core of the problem
   though i.e. appears to be down to issue with All-in-one-Event Calendar which 
   I have had to brute force disable.
 * Best regards
    Midge
 *  [Saravanan S, a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simplysaru/)
 * (@simplysaru)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pluginsphp-update-corephp-files-empty/#post-4720677)
 * Interesting. Is the problem fixed?
 *  Thread Starter [MidgeACE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midgeace/)
 * (@midgeace)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pluginsphp-update-corephp-files-empty/#post-4720680)
 * Not yet as the Event plugin is disabled and cannot use it. I have raised the 
   issue on the Timely support forum. Will await to see what comes of it.
 *  Thread Starter [MidgeACE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midgeace/)
 * (@midgeace)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pluginsphp-update-corephp-files-empty/#post-4720683)
 * I have actually been able to resolve the issue with Calendar plugin i.e. appears
   there is a conflict with another plugin. At this time not sure which as have 
   disabled quite a few older plugins on the site which seemed to resolve the problem
   for now. If I manage to have more time or come across this issue again will post
   my findings.

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 * [core files](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/core-files/)
 * [upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [MidgeACE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midgeace/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pluginsphp-update-corephp-files-empty/#post-4720683)
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