How to clean unused app files

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Published on 2012-12-04T17:21:58Z Indexed on 2012/12/04 23:22 UTC
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I've finished working on a web app and looking back at the process, I can see that a lot of extra files have been accumulated - backup css, php files, javascripts, images. I'm using an MVC workflow (codeigniter) and I would like to clean the app from unused files. There are also libraries which I've downloaded but referenced some of the files in my code, yet I've kept the unused files too. Total mess really, I'll take a note for the next app to become more organized.

There is also a fair security concern regarding these sorts of situations, plus I think that it would be better to omit all the extra files when search engines are indexing the app.

Has anyone been in that situation and what is the safest/fastest way to clean the app?

My setup: MVC Codeigniter -> Netbeans -> Mac

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