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mallaury's avatar

Folders bugged when transferred by ftp

Hello, I am facing a bug with Filezilla, some folders are created automatically on my server.

These folders have absolute path names from my local machine... For example :

C:\Users\NAME\Herd\PROJECT\storage\logs
C:\Users\NAME\Herd\PROJECT\storage\framework\views

It looks like I transfered a symbolic link that makes a mess. But I do not know how to delete that.

When I delete them, they come back automatically. These folders are created at the root and in the /public folder of my server. Do you know what's happening?

Thanks!

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Snapey's avatar

you need to clear cache before tranferring you files.

Better, dont use ftp. Pull your project to your server using git

mallaury's avatar

@Snapey Thanks. Yes you're right. But I do not have access to the git command on this shared hosting. My customer do not want to change it.

Do you know how to fix that now ? I always only transfer /app and /resources folders. So It's strange...

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