Title: .qidb folder?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# .qidb folder?

 *  [tuckthis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuckthis/)
 * (@tuckthis)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/qidb-folder/)
 * I am not sure where to ask this question and have been looking all over for an
   answer to my question.
 * I have several WordPress sites and a couple of them where hacked into recently.
 * When this first happened I noticed that some of my sites had a folder called .
   qidb since the folder was not in all of my sites I thought that it was junk and
   took it out.
 * Now Google is not finding my site. I did accidentally block Google from crawling
   my sites for about a week. I just caught that last night and let Google access
   my sites again.
 * But now I am concerned what is the .qidb folder? Is it part of WordPress or Google?
   Should I put them back?

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/qidb-folder/#post-2978486)
 * If your .qidb is like the [.qidb folders I found](http://www.google.com/search?q=.qidb),
   those are Berkeley DB files. I have never seen then associated with a WordPress
   site before. MySQL used to support the BDB engine but as of 5.1 it does not. 
   It shouldn’t have anything to do with WordPress or Google.
 *  Thread Starter [tuckthis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuckthis/)
 * (@tuckthis)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/qidb-folder/#post-2978518)
 * Thanks for your reply. I wont worry about putting them back then.
 *  [takes12no1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takes12no1/)
 * (@takes12no1)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/qidb-folder/#post-2978668)
 * This is your Quick Install file if you use that in cpanel to create your wordpress
   install. Nothing to worry about. I suppose if you delete it, it might keep you
   from doing managing your installation from the quick install tool.
 *  [thrain design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thrain-design/)
 * (@thrain-design)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/qidb-folder/#post-2978669)
 * As takes12no1 says this folder is related to multisite features. On my case it
   did showed up as soon as I enabled this feature and installed a site on a sub-
   domain.

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 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [thrain design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thrain-design/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/qidb-folder/#post-2978669)
 * Status: not resolved

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