why does it create private folders

[Jen]

My site creates _folders; why? and for which pages?

And should I be placing my images in a private folder?
and css pages?

If the folder is _private does it matter if the pages are
_private page or not? Thank you!

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The _private folder is special FP folder, whatever you do, don't delete even
if you don't use.

FP uses it to store hit counter data, form data when writing to file. Also
the FP search component will not search the folder as well as any folder
where the first character is a underscore. All other folder with a
underscore as the first character are hidden by default, such as those
created by themes and shared borders.

I rarely use the _private folder, instead I will create my own underscore
folder for include pages, etc.

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[Wally S]

Don't put your images in the _private folder. If this folder is protected by
your server, then browsers will not be able to download the images.

Wally S