TCH-Thomas Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 Not sure how im gonna explain this but i give it a try... I have some folders that contains projects (websites under construction) apart from that i have some folders and subfolders in the for my personal site. A few days ago I erased one of the unfinished projects including the menufiles for that project. Today when i upload by ftp some menu files for my personal site in to the subfolders I see the old menu files for the erased project. I would have understood if i had seen these files in 1 folder since its ok to be *tired sometime, but these files was in everyone of my personal folders. *= I have always had my personal sitefiles in their folders and other website files in their respective folders and no crosslinking (or what its called) etc. Quote
ThumpAZ Posted January 31, 2004 Posted January 31, 2004 Are you sure that the files wre actually deleted? I ask this because I have used FTP programs in the past that would delte the folder, but then move the files underneath it into the parent directory (get rid of the folder, but the files just got moved up one level). I have also seen it where the files showed as deleted at the time, but therre are remnants of the file left over that the OS tries to recover as files due to some restore function... thinking that you didn't really want to get rid of the files..."did you " I hate OS's that try to "think" for you. If I wanted to get rid of something, why should it care? EDIT: Just reread your post... you mean to tell me that the files are in ALL of the subfolders, not just in one location? If this is the case, then I would suspect something in the site itself has been given orders to replicate certain file types to all directories. I have done things like this to rapidly deploy stuff that I was going to use for different project subdomains across a primary domain. Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted January 31, 2004 Author Posted January 31, 2004 (edited) Here´s the structure I had (NOTE: Not have anymore) Public_html Home Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 ... Luc Folder one Folder two Folder three ... If I understand you correct the files in Luc > folder one, could move to Luc? In my case they moved from Luc > folder one, two and three to Home > Folder 1,2,3... Edited January 31, 2004 by Jikrantz Quote
ThumpAZ Posted January 31, 2004 Posted January 31, 2004 are all of your original files in Home>f1,2,3 still there, and the Luc>one,two,three files were just added? What I am suspecting is that the folder names were the same, and were not deleted properly. The risk is that the files could have automatically overwritten stuff in the Home dir. Most FTP progs allow you to set the warning level for overwrites... Not allowed, ask before, automatic. I NEVER set mine to automatic... just in case. Check your files that are supposed to be in the Home dir and make sure they are not the ones that _were_ in the Luc dir (simple check of modified date should be sufficient for most) good luck Quote
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