if you’re definitely sure you aren’t using subversion, you should be able to delete all of the .svn directories you find - it’d be best to make a complete backup of everything first though in case you want to restore something later.
i’m not sure about on macs, but on linux, a leading ’.’ indicates that the file or directory should be hidden.
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Any filenames that begin with a period are hidden by default from the Finder in OS X. They show up in the terminal and most FTP clients or if you use a utility like Cocktail to turn on the hidden preference to display them.
Did you by chance check out the distribution from the repository? Which version is it?
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It was version 0.9.6.1; it was installed by the previous webmaster who is currently unreachable. In the backup copy of the site, we had files such as "\assets\inc\images\.svn\prop-base\textlogo.gif.svn-base" - but there were more hidden files post-hack (e.g. "\assets\images\.thumb_busy.gif"). Would it just be best to delete all hidden files?
If there’s an .svn file in each of the main directories, the odds are that your former webmaster got the installation via SVN. The only reason I can think of to keep the .svn files is if you might ever want to update the site from SVN using an SVN client. It sounds like that’s very unlikely and the safest thing would be to just delete them all.
I don’t ever plan to use subversion, I use Fugu/Cyberduck to upload/update files.
Thanks for the responses, everyone!
~liurr90
. There are also several directories containing thumbnails that have a period (.) before them - what does this period mean, and how/why was this file created?
