Installed packages confusion

[dutch]

I’m a long-time but non-expert ST user using it to write prose. Recently, I was trying to copy my customization setup over to a different computer, and I discovered my folder arrangements are a little wonky. All my fault I’m sure, but I have “Installed Packages” in two location:

[A] sublime-text/Installed Packages

and

[B] sublime-text/Packages
(the packages are at same folder level as User)

see pic for clarification

FWIW, [A] seems to act as the authoritative set, as it contains more packages than [B] and they all seem to be working.

Three questions:

1. How might I have inadvertently done this semi-duplication of packages?

2. Is it safe to delete the packages (other than User) that appear in [B]?

3. When I’m reproducing my system with customizations on a different computer, will it then be sufficient to copy over the set from [A] and my packages/user directory?

Thanks for any thoughts.

[gbird]

FWIW, I have the same. Mostly the contents of these folders are different, but occasionally the same. You will notice the ‘installed packages’ folder contain the fully packaged up .sublime-package file, whereas the ‘packages’ folder contains the unzipped folders and files.

Where the is a double-up of the same plugin, my (uneducated) guess is that the developer first shipped it as the unpackaged version and then subsequently provided the same plugin as a .sublime-package file.

That’s just a guess though. Either way, it works, so I would just leave sleeping dogs.