1) Does Admin Tools update from the J3 to the J4 version during the upgrade process? We have manually updated Akeeba Backup and removed the older version. But Admin Tools does not need this action from the user?
Correct. Admin Tools does not require any further action. All upgrade steps are taken automatically when installing the new version. This is true for all of our software EXCEPT Akeeba Backup.
The reason Akeeba Backup is different is that the internal component name changed from com_akeeba to com_akeebabackup. This is actually a JED requirement — the internal name must match the component name — which we didn't have to follow in the past because our software was grandfathered from a time before this requirement was in effect. I suspect that at some point they will ask everyone to follow the rule so this was a great time to do a migration of the internal name. On top of that, com_akeeba was always a misnomer as this is the name of the company, not the name of the extension.
We have been using Joomla for a while an some (most) of our sites do probably have some old FOF libraries. We found the 'File Magic Eraser' tool to do some cleanup. Excellent!
Thank you! This tool was one of those “scratch your own itch” things. Our site has been updated from Joomla 2.5 all the way to 3.10 and even before that it was migrated from 1.5 to 2.5. So there's 13–odd years of cruft on it. We needed a good way to remove them. Trying to write instructions I realised I could just as well write a tool to do that. And that's what I did :)
We still have this one: file_fof40 (4.0.9). I am not sure if this is used by the J4 versions of Akeeba Backup and Admin Tools? Can we remove this or do we need to keep this?
It is no longer used by our Joomla 4–only software. Please note that at the time of this writing we have not released Joomla 4–only versions for Akeeba Ticket System and Akeeba Engage. If you use either of these you should not try to uninstall FOF 4.
Further to that, FOF 4 may not let you uninstall it. We will release an update next year which will remove this protection. We are not doing it just yet to prevent our users from inadvertently breaking their sites before trying to upgrade them to Joomla 4 :)
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
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