I am developing a portal site and have made a copy of the DotNetNuke directory and placed the copy under a directory called Backups.  After attempting to apply a skin unsuccessfully, I took the backup copy and copied over the C:\dotnetnuke directory.  However, after doing this I notice that the DotNetNuke directory still contains the skin I uploaded.  Then I copied the dotnetnuke directory from another backup copy (on my laptop) and it too kept the information.  How is this happening?

Using version 4, on Windows Server 2003.

Michael

Copying a group of files and folders over an existing set using Windows Explorer only replaces files and folders that have the same names. The new skin you installed had no equivalent in your backup so it did not get overwritten during the copy.

To be certain you don't have extraneous files and folders after a restore, you should simply delete the entire destination structure before the copy.

That said, I have noticed the following anomaly when using the unzip tool in my host's control panel: It correctly warns that files of the same name will be overwritten if the zip is extracted over an existing directory, but then it actually wipes out all other files as well. I learned this the hard way after unzipping a DNN upgrade package over a site. In effect it wipes everything that was there... which would have achieved what you were thinking.

Rob