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odd error with garbage in phpMyAdmin configuration file

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Stefano:
wdepot

don't use external editors..
edit/create your fragments using nano

wdepot:
The problem is now solved thanks to the person who suggested ls -a and it had nothing to do with a text editor.

I thought I had done ls -a on both template folders but apparently I had only done it on the stock template folder and not the phpMyAdmin templates-custom folder. It turns out that when I had uploaded the custom 20user-config file I had done so by simply dragging the phpMyAdmin folder and it's contents into the templates-custom folder using Fugu on my Power Mac. Doing that also copied the .DS_Store file that the Mac automatically creates in every folder to the server and it was that file that was causing the garbage to be included whenever the template was expanded, either manually or after a server update with its associated reconfigure restart which expands all templates.

Lesson learned: create template-custom folders directly on the server and then copy only the content files to avoid hidden files like .DS_Store being uploaded.

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