Problem with ASM after you disable it - warehouses, stock etc

[alwaysperplexed]

Hello

 

When I upgraded to 1.5.6 I tried the advanced stock management option because that sounded pretty cool and offered additional features like for supplier orders etc.  I had to create a warehouse and then allocate stock to that warehouse.  All good.  However, several things started to go wrong so unfortunately, I had to disable ASM.

 

I thought that was all I had to do and everything would revert to how it was before, but I have just realised that that is not the case, and the problem seems to lie with the work that is done to set up warehouses and stock because when you switch ASM off, those things still remain even though you can't see or control them because they are switched off.

 

A weird thing happened a few days ago, and I found and responded to this thread http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/293374-duplicate-shopping-cart-and-orders/page-2 (The feeling is that the problem there has to do with ASM or shopping carts.)

 

Today I discovered another problem, because of the problem in the link above.  I needed to change the stock quantity for an item that now has 0 stock because of the issue in the link, however every time I tried to change product > quantity it would say "data being saved" and then the stock would still be 0.

 

So after some searching I find it could be ASM related.  So I switch ASM back on again, and try to delete the warehouse, it says you can't because there are products still in it.  But ASM is disabled!

 

So presumably to fix this problem, I would need to manually delete all the stock from all the products in the warehouse, so I could then delete the warehouse, and then hopefully I could then adjust my stock manually?  I haven't tried this yet because there are hundreds of products with multiple attributes and I just don't have the time right now.

 

Is this how it's supposed to be?  Having to make all the stock adjustments manually for 100s, 1000s of products?  I'm not sure if this is something that can be done automatically or whether it should be something that people are made aware of when choosing to use ASM or not, but if anyone has a solution for this, I'd really like to know what it is.