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1. Rhythmic.Mystery
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   When programming themes/plugins, I first test them on a local WP installation I run on my windows laptop.

   I edit the files, then zip the folder, and upload it to my local installation using the wp dashboard. Stuff works fine.

   Then I try to upload the same zip file to my domain, using the remote wp dashboard (running on some unix/linux). When I try to activate the plugin, I get a "file not found" error - with no info about which file is missing. I cannot delete the plugin/theme either.

   So I connect with FTP and try to delete the plugin folder. No go: "553 Prohibited file name".

   It turns out, when I create zip files on my windows system, the filenames end up containing backslashes.

   When I install such an archive on a wp instance running on linux/unix, the archive doesn't get extracted properly. Files don't land into their appropriate folders, but end up containing backslashes in their names instead.

   This creates a huge mess, because I cannot access these files. I cannot delete them. All I can do is rename the folder containing them, but the broken plugins still appear in the dashboard.

   This is a bug you must fix.

2. TheFreeWindows
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I have the same problem. Any way to delete these files? Not to mention that the system should not have allowed their creation, no matter what WordPress would like to do.

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