Could you provide the path to your override?

you mean - templates/as002057/html/com_contact/category ?

Yeah. It looks fine though. Which Joomla version are you using?

i use version 3.3.4

Which files in the category view are you trying to override?

i try to override default_items.php (the view that lists items of a category)

when i edit this file - for example i add a "TEST" string somwhere in HTML Area - nothing changes on the page.
i read somewhere in a forum - that this could be a bug of joomla itself, that the override of contact does not work correctly - but i dont know if this is really it...

Justed tested this. I can't reproduce the problem.

so if you change the default_items.php - for example with a TEST string - it shows up on your template?

Yea. Take a look here:

wooow cool - i inserted the same string at the same line as you did.
nothing happens on my site.
see here:

Ahh okay. You have a wrong structure on your override

It should be:

yes i saw that on your printscdreen - but this structure was created by my template oO
i moved the files now to the parent directory.
but it does not change the way it looks.

shall i maybe delete the whole category folder and let joomla re-create them?

sorry - after purging all caches it worked with moving the files.
thank you very much for your fast support here :)

Great it worked out

but sometimes it acts really strange.
if i upload the file via FTP (Filezilla) i wait few minutes till the changes are on the page visible...
can that be or is there maybe some hosting problems?

found it - global configuration - check caching to disabled - and the changes happen directly.

thanks for your support again :)