Originally Posted by Rhyono
If it is a patch, it is sometimes only a modification to the main addon.
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Just to clarify this:
A patch can be 1 line of source code change in any file of the addon it patches.
Or a lot of source code lines changes.
Even a whole file replaced.
Several files replaced.
Or even the whole directory with all files replaced.
Maybe it's also a totally new folder within the addon, like "new textures in the subfolder art".
As long as the folder name of the addon and patch are the same, exisitng files will be overwritten and new files added.
If you update a normal addon, no patch, it normally overwrites the whole addon folder replacing the existing files. If you do this manually old files which ar enot used anymore (beause they got renamed or moved to subfolders) will be kept! You alwys should delete the whole addon's foilder before updating it officially (if you do not want to keep old files and folders in there).
The addon manager Minion will do the same for you afaik: Downlaod the ZIP archive from
www.esoui.com, delete the old folder of the addon you are updating, extract it to the live/AddOns folder which builds the whole folder new.