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[the bigg]

Aurora has some mod-related files in its backup directory. Is it possible to move the files somewhere else? Files in the backup folder break my install-cleaning procedure, which involves a rm -fr */backup...

Edited by the bigg, 09 November 2009 - 03:20 PM.

[Miloch]

the bigg, on Nov 9 2009, 11:17 PM, said:

Aurora has some mod-related files in its backup directory. Is it possible to move the files somewhere else? Files in the backup folder break my install-cleaning procedure, which involves a rm -fr */backup...

We'd have to change a lot of code. Is it possible to refine your cleaning procedure to remove only numbered subfolders in that folder? You might hose other mods than Aurora, because several put their folder icons or other miscellaneous files in that folder to prevent an empty folder that can get skipped with some extractors (though I suppose that isn't much of an issue for WeiDU anymore if it creates a non-existing backup). In Aurora's case, we also use it to store debugging files that provide more info than the DEBUG log. They are blank on creation but get written to if you install the related components.

[the bigg]

Bash would accept rm -fr */backup/[0-9]*... but that's still partially unsafe (I can't specify 'numbered folders' without studying the find options for three years), and you just need to s/backup/prod/g in your *.tp*, *.sh and *.bat files.

[Miloch]

Fine, I'll move them to a 'log' subfolder or something for the next version. What's one more subfolder when you've got 20+? Though I think I use backup for logging or other temporary operations in some of my other mods, and I can't guarantee I'll get around to updating them any time soon, since I just updated most of them.