• Resolved Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)


    Hi,

    I noticed today (because one of my security plugins flagged it) that there was a new folder in the uploads folder (wp-content/uploads/) of each of my sites running WP-Optimize called wpo-plugins-tables-list.json, which appears to contain a lengthy list of tables used by various plugins.

    I need to ask:

    1. Is this a legitimate WP-Optimize file?
    2. If so, why is it in the root uploads folder rather than wp-content/uploads/ (which I assume is also added by WP-Optimize)? (I try to reserve the root uploads folder for Media Library uploaded files.)

    Let me know. Thanks!

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  • @ate-up-with-motor

    wpo-plugins-tables-list.json contains is a general and anonymous list of plugins and their associated database tables.

    This list is used to compare with your database in order to determine which tables are used by which plugins.

    It’s safe to have the file inside wp-content/uploads folder.

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    Thanks for the reply.

    Is that file identical for all WP-Optimize installations? (Looking at it for two different sites, it appeared to be, and the file size was identical.)

    Is there a reason it’s not in the WPO folder? Strictly from a practical standpoint, having it in the main (root) uploads folders with all my image files is not great because it complicates management of other files in that folder.

    Plugin Author David Anderson

    (@davidanderson)

    Hi,

    The answers to these questions are the same as when last asked: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-file-in-uploads-folder/#post-14405014

    Thank you,
    David

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    Ack, I’d forgotten all about that.

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