What is it exactly that you need to ignore? _cache and the place where quick-uploads go are 2 completely separate things.

Also depeding on your start version for upgrade, you may be able to use: http://b2evolution.net/man/backup_ignore-conf

What is it exactly that you need to ignore?

Not sure about the quick uploads.. just remember last time i cleared the cache folder all my images on previous posts disappeared.

what is the syntax for backup_ignore-conf file?

OK clearing the _cache folder via backoffice tools, and runing the updater seemed to work.. of course all the page cache is gone so yeah..

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also after updating. I'm getting a handful of php errors:

Strict Standards: Declaration of captcha_img_plugin::GetDefaultSettings() should be compatible with Plugin::GetDefaultSettings(&$params) in /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/plugins/captcha_img_plugin/_captcha_img.plugin.php on line 1464

Strict Standards: Declaration of captcha_img_plugin::AfterCommentFormInsert() should be compatible with Plugin::AfterCommentFormInsert(&$params) in /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/plugins/captcha_img_plugin/_captcha_img.plugin.php on line 1464

Strict Standards: Declaration of captcha_img_plugin::MessageFormSentCleanup() should be compatible with Plugin::MessageFormSentCleanup(&$params) in /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/plugins/captcha_img_plugin/_captcha_img.plugin.php on line 1464

Strict Standards: Declaration of captcha_img_plugin::CaptchaValidatedCleanup() should be compatible with Plugin::CaptchaValidatedCleanup(&$params) in /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/plugins/captcha_img_plugin/_captcha_img.plugin.php on line 1464

Strict Standards: Declaration of categories_plugin::SkinTag() should be compatible with Plugin::SkinTag(&$params) in /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/plugins/_categories.plugin.php on line 317

and some from the core;

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/plugins/youtube_plugin/_youtube.plugin.php:421) in /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/inc/_core/_template.funcs.php on line 40

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/plugins/youtube_plugin/_youtube.plugin.php:421) in /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/inc/_core/_template.funcs.php on line 312

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/plugins/youtube_plugin/_youtube.plugin.php:421) in /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/inc/_core/_template.funcs.php on line 313

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/plugins/youtube_plugin/_youtube.plugin.php:421) in /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/inc/_core/_template.funcs.php on line 314

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/plugins/youtube_plugin/_youtube.plugin.php:421) in /home2/a4at/public_html/blog/inc/_core/_template.funcs.php on line 315

any ideas?

NEVERMIND!
apparently older plugins no longer work if installed (even if disabled..) removed them and errors went away.

so OK back to upgrade script.. or the conf file.

Thanks for putting up with me :)

I updated http://b2evolution.net/man/backup_ignore-conf .

We will add an option to ignore _cache.

of course all the page cache is gone so yeah..

This should NOT be a bad thing. All page cache expires after 10 minutes anyways!

Do you have a scheduled script in place to prune your page cache regularly?

Also note: quick uploads are NOT stored in _cache.

well OK will check that docs page..

Its listed in the tasks / schedule tab on system but I have no idea if it actually works..

Yeah I know, not sure why my images vanished last time.. didn't this time after clearing the cache.

Next version will exclude _cache by default:

hello,

great.. adding it to the aoto-update script should make it smoother for those that have the same issues I had. or big multi-sites..