Purpose of dotted folders and one more question

[Zeka]

Hi.

1. Dotted folders in "module" folder.

E.g. I use AdminOnSteroids, so in "module" folder I have AdminOnSteroid folder and along with it I have the same dotted version of this folder.

What is the purpose of the second folder? Can it be deleted? 

2. Uploading of some folders from site assets

I have just started to use vinyl-ftp for ftp deploy by gulp task. So I try to decress amount of files to upload to remote host. 

Based on this I have one question: 

Is it safe to exclude these folder from upload? 

assets/cache
assets/logs
assets/sessions

 

Thanks.

[Rudy]

Hi @Zeka

1. Those dot folders are backup copy of the previous module version. It is safe to delete.

2. Yes, it is safe to ignore those folders. 

[Zeka]

Thanks @Rudy!

[adrian]

On 10/24/2016 at 3:40 AM, Rudy said:

1. Those dot folders are backup copy of the previous module version. It is safe to delete.

Just to clarify, these are backups are created by the ProcessWire Upgrades module that Ryan created.

If you want to make cleaning up of these (and PW core backups) a little easier, check out Module Toolkit's Cleanup option.