Unfortunately the manual update did not work, so I restored the site from a backup… which on its own did not solve the problem but a restore of MySQL dB prior to the time.ly plugin has given me back the dashboard, of course, – all the changes I made since then will have to be redone 🙁 … thank you for your help and suggestions
thx for the prompt reply but had already tried that .. tried again but still only the barebones dashboard.. is there somthing in 1 of the files which load the dashboard which might still be trying to load the time.ly theme, which of course I have now deleted?