Problem deleting default shop after installing Version 1.6.0.9

[fordtman]

I have installed Version 1.6.0.9 on a local machine and everything is working correctly. I ran the "PrestaShop Cleaner" to Delete Catalogue, Delete Orders and Customers, Check & Fix and Clean & Optimize, however when I run the PrestaShop frontend the default shop still shows up. Can I remove ALL default shop data by using the backend or do I have to truncate the database directly using PhpMyAdmin. I am now trying to get a clean installation with no default data. 

 

I have trawled through the forums and have found a few topics that relate to this issue but they do not provide a specific solution. If there is a topic that provides such a solution could someone point me to it. Any help would be appreciated.

[El Patron]

The safest method is to disable products/categories can cancel test orders rather than deleting them.  Issues can arise like lost cart or  ghost products being added to cart.  

 

Personally I recommend not using a cleaner and highly recommend to not directly modify the database.

 

If this is a new shop, and if you have not started adding your own unique categories/products, I would re-install fresh copy, disable as suggested and not run cleaner.

[fordtman]

El Patron, thanks for the reply. You are correct in that I am setting up a new shop, I am converting my existing shop (based on Joomla!) to run on PrestaShop to take advantage of some of the PrestaShop features I need. I have written software to convert the Joomla .csv data into PrestaShop  .csv data and it is working correctly so I can recreate new copies of PrestaShop quite easily. I will try your suggestion of disabling instead of running cleaner, there is very little extra work involved. Thanks for your help.