I'm having to move my site to another URL and hosted server and I'm wondering about all the links ...

I see in some JoomlaBamboo examples and even in some of the actual fields for the sample content that file paths are sometimes preceded by "..." or "<root>". Is this just for example purposes or can "..." or "<root>" (or something else) be added to the file path in all cases for real?

Hi

As long as you've not added absolute links pointing to your development server you will be fine

I think I've mentioned Akeeba backup files before but this is the best way to move a site together with the akeeba kickstart files

Paul

OK. Thank you. I don't think I have anything too specific ... mine all start like /templates/jblifestyle/user/ ... for stuff I've added that's custom.

I have Akeeba installed but it's only able to make backups intermittently (have been getting support from my hosting service and Akeeba to straighten out). Apparently GoDaddy is so overloaded that Akeeba times out during backups. So I'm kind of in a pinch right now re backing up site and, even more importantly, testing backup. And I can't make any template updates until that's sorted out (mostly because I don't know how to backup site and restore manually for testing purposes; let me know if you have advice/good article to help).

Thank you again for all of your help!

Yes that does sound like the godaddy level of service

I'd check out the akeeba docs for using a backup and a kickstart

www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/akeeba-kickstart-documentation.html

Cheers
Paul