can't find app/design/frontend/base/default/, Am i missign something? - magento

It's really weird what i am really dealing with here, in all the books that i read about learning and developing themes for Magento it points out to the directroy app/design/frontend/base/default/ and that it should contain three folders (etc. layout, template)**but when i go and search for it i only come up with **app/design/frontend/Magento and the Magento folder is empty,reinstalled Magento many times so i am sure it's a clearn installation, what is going on here, why i can't see those directories?

app/design/frontend/base/default , this path restricted to before and till magento version 1.9.x. You shall be downloading and using magento 2.0. For this you have to download magento version 1.9.x

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I had this question as well. After sniffing around, it looks like the magmi-0.8 folder may be reserved for the future releases of Magmi 0.8. The current stable is 0.7.19
I tried to run the magmi-0.8 version but got a bunch of errors, so I am now running the app from the base magmi folder. Fingers crossed this version plays nicely with Magento CE 1.8
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Convert joomla 1.5 to 2.5 with whole site and also with virtuemart

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You need to use an extension such as JUpgrade to upgrade your site to 2.5.
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Fatal error: Class 'Mage_Core_Helper_Cookie' not found magento

I created a theme on my own magento website, and uploaded it to another magento website, but when i go to the frontend of that website i get this
Fatal error: Class \\’Mage_Core_Helper_Cookie\\’ not found in /home/winterwa/public_html/app/Mage.php on line 516
I searched for a solution and tried this one described in this topic:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/280318/#t401019
(cookie.php in app/code/core/mage/core/helper) but it didn\\’t help a thing.
Any suggestions/solutions for this??
It sounds like the two different Magento installs are running different versions of Magento. The file in question is only added to Magento in version 1.7. I can only assume that you have taken a fresh install of 1.7 and based your theme off of the default / base theme for this. Therefore when the theme gets added to an older version of Magento it is trying to load Blocks / Templates that you haven't overloaded and that just don't exist in the base template.
Unfortunately this won't be the easiest thing to fix. You will need to go through the layout/template files, removing references that add blocks or use helpers that don't exist for the current version of magento. For the issue you mention, you should be able to find by searching for helper('cookie') in your template files.

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