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2 CommentsI'm upgrading my wordpress installation.
I get it for the most part except one thing.
It says to back up files.
All my wordpress files are in a folder titled www.
There are however three other folders outside of that.
Two public_html folders which contain the same stuff as is in the www folder and a public_ftp folder. They look like duplicates or something. Do I delete these as well or leave them?
bobbyh
Written Jul. 23, 2007 / Report /
Cooper, those "duplicate folders" sound like symlinks, which are like "shortcuts" on Windows. You should just leave them, as maybe one of them is the "real folder" and the www folder is just the symlink! It's impossible for me to tell which is the real folder, since I don't know who your host is, so I'm not familiar with the default naming conventions...
You mentioned there are two "public_html" folders. There is probably a subtle difference in the names of those folders, as I don't think you can have two symlinks with the exact same name. Also, I would speculate that your public_ftp folder is there to support anonymous FTP if you've enabled that on your domain. You can just leave that too. :-)
cooper
Written Jul. 23, 2007 / Report /
Your right one of the public html folders has an _ after it.
I am going to shoot off an email to the host to ask them which ones are the symlinks just to be sure.
thanks