files change question

Interesting question, I will assume that your website is in a Linux server (if not then this answer will not be helpful to you), Unix like systems report modifications in a file when it detects changes in the inode data, this happens when the permissions, owner, group, or other metadata from the inode is updated.

Following this idea we can conclude that a file can be considered modified even if its content is the same, because its inode data was changed. Usually this does not happen but all depends on the configuration that your hosting provider has applied to the server where your website is being hosted.

There are some differences if you are using a Windows or Mac server.

Can you send a copy of the emails that you are receiving to me? This is my email [deleted] (deleted to reduce spam) please reference this thread so I know what the email is about.

Hi Yorman
I send it to you yesterday, not sure you got it yet, If don’t please let me know.
Thank you so much!
Have a good day!
Ruby

Hello, thanks for your patience; I received your email several days ago but did not want to reply until I could find a solution to the problem, I created the same directories and files listed in the core integrity checks table that you saw in the email you got but none of the files were listed in my tests, I looked into the code that powers the file system scans and found that all these directories are being skipped by default:

• /wp-content/cache
• /wp-content/backup
• /wp-content/uploads
• /wp-content/w3tc

As you can see all the files in the email report you got are inside the “/wp-content/cache/supercache” directory which is inside the first entry in the skipped list. I do not know why the scanner is not skipping them in your server, I suggest you to go to the “Ignore Scanning” panel located in the plugin’ settings page and add that directory path so the plugin is forced to skip it during the scans, that should fix the issue for you.