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#14860 Site diff issues

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Latest post by nicholas on Saturday, 02 February 2013 07:52 CST

TurnTex

Hey Nicholas,

Have not contacted you in a while.  Hope all is well in Greece!

I am having an issue with my website where I think I may have possibly been hacked.  I have a backup with is about 2 weeks old so I downloaded it to my computer.  I then created a new backup of the current site hoping to use sitediff to help find the problem.  However, I am getting the "error could not create folder for thumbs.sb:encryptable.  I looked in the support area and saw a public ticket of the same problem where you said "That's a Windows limitation :( You'll have to retake the backups excluding all tmp directories."  Is there another way I can get this to work.  Obviously, if I am trying to compare an old backup, I will not be able to re-take that backup without the tmp directores as you instruct.  Any other suggestions you would have to compare the two backups would be appreciated.  I am running Win 8 wth 8MB of Ram and plenty of HD space so hardware limitations should not be an issue.  My backup files are large though, at 350+ MB each.

Thank you sir!

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

For each backup archive do the following:

  • Extract it locally using Akeeba eXtract Wizard, letting the "Ignore most errors" option checked.
  • ZIP the extracted files using Windows Compressed Folder (DO NOT use 7Zip, WinRAR, WinZIP, PKZIP or any other archiver application - there is a reason I'm saying that)

Now compare the two ZIP archives using SiteDiff.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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