Normally I don't bother with processing orders placed on one of our sites on Sunday - the site says that orders will be processed the next business day, but we were expecting 10-20 inches of snow, so I brought the snapshot home - processed a couple of orders this morning, and now I have saved the snapshot out of my home machine, and was about to upload it to the web server ready to re-import it into my work machine on Monday.... its smaller - not a little, but a LOT smaller!
The 2 developers were both 7.0.3.FBIA and US versions, and the snapshot just shrank from 2.38Mb to 1.89Mb - this is a little disconcerting.... is this "normal"?
I'm thinking it's PROBABLY due to the site files not having been generated on this machine... so I'm in the process of doing an upload from this location to see how that affects the snapshot size... if that IS the case, then surely there is every reason for Actinic to EXCLUDE the final site files from snapshots - if they can be re-generated on import to any new install, what's the point in actually backing those up?
Update... site upload just finished - created a NEW snapshot and this seems to have grown by 1kb, but is still 1,894kb instead of the original snapshot I downloaded of 2,383kb - so that's the difference in the two?
Opening up the two snapshots in winrar, I see that there is a CatalogThemes folder missing from the NEW snapshot - why?
This was a snapshot generated from "File | Snapshot | Export" - rather than a "Deploy Site" snapshot - and I was consistent on both machines in the method used to generate/import each snapshot file, so why would one contain the theme, and another not? and... should I be wary about importing my new slimmer snapshot into my office development machine?
regards
Greg
The 2 developers were both 7.0.3.FBIA and US versions, and the snapshot just shrank from 2.38Mb to 1.89Mb - this is a little disconcerting.... is this "normal"?
I'm thinking it's PROBABLY due to the site files not having been generated on this machine... so I'm in the process of doing an upload from this location to see how that affects the snapshot size... if that IS the case, then surely there is every reason for Actinic to EXCLUDE the final site files from snapshots - if they can be re-generated on import to any new install, what's the point in actually backing those up?
Update... site upload just finished - created a NEW snapshot and this seems to have grown by 1kb, but is still 1,894kb instead of the original snapshot I downloaded of 2,383kb - so that's the difference in the two?
Opening up the two snapshots in winrar, I see that there is a CatalogThemes folder missing from the NEW snapshot - why?
This was a snapshot generated from "File | Snapshot | Export" - rather than a "Deploy Site" snapshot - and I was consistent on both machines in the method used to generate/import each snapshot file, so why would one contain the theme, and another not? and... should I be wary about importing my new slimmer snapshot into my office development machine?
regards
Greg
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