Old webs files on server

[dandybox]

Could anyone please tell me if its ok to go into Filezilla and just delete all the old website files from a previous build with different software? Is there a protocol for server clean up? Site is hosted with 1and1

They are showing up in Google search console with errors

Thanks

[Günter Heißenbüttel]

Simply delete all files manually from 1&1 servers and re-publish your site.

[dandybox]

How do Identify which are the muse files to leave please? I'd rather do that than have any down time, the website takes a good hour to upload from scratch.

[Günter Heißenbüttel · Accepted solution]

Normally, you can delete the complete folder, where your site data are placed.

If you aren’t sure and you want to delete all „orphan“ files except the Muse files:

Export your site to your machine (File/Export to HTML …), compare these files to the files on server and delete all files on the server, which are not on your machine.

[dandybox]

Thank you Gunter, I will give this a go

[Nancy OShea]

I have a 3rd party tool for cleaning up orphan files on my remote server called OrFind.   It crawls the site and detects all unused files and assets.  It also contains a dedicated FTP, SFTP, FSTP client.

OrFind by Inspyder - Detect & Remove Unlinked Web Pages | Inspyder