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January 11, 2004
VTI CNF
In retrospect, Microsoft was totally wrong. I wonder if they ever admitted it.
I don't think they ever explained why they used these idiotic folders. If you didn't know and cared just a little, I'm talking about Microsoft Front Page Extensions, something which has made about as much impact on the world of web development as Boy George has made on Rock & Roll; for a while it was cool, but really, what were we thinking?
Imagine you were looking at a web page. That web page would have a URL (http://coolpage.com/brainspew.htm for example). If that page was developed with MS Front Page, somewhere on the website there would be a copy (sometimes two or more) hidden in an invisible folder called _vti_cnf. Why? Who knows, who cares. It didn't set the world on fire whatever it was, and it doubled the amount of junk per website.
If you find yourself one day archiving your oldest and most treasured websites, I can only hope that you didn't use Front Page.
Posted by mbowen at January 11, 2004 06:52 PM
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Try Dreamweaver. Just as easy with more contol and less hassles.
Posted by: Prince C. at January 12, 2004 07:10 PM
Finally took a look at some of the files under _VTI_CNF: while they carry the same name as the webpage file, they are not identical. Looks like formatting information, mostly.
Posted by: Ward Bell at January 12, 2004 08:57 PM
Thank you, Cobb site posters, in delivering to me
the answers to my vti_cnf head-scratcher. I just inherited maint. of a site a started to stare at this vti_cnf dir. I thought, huh? What? It'll be del'd this week. Tnx.
Posted by: Christopher Regan at March 31, 2004 09:08 AM
How can you get the end-user not to see the these vti_cnf files. It is makes me sick.
Posted by: Trina at August 20, 2004 12:24 PM