Upgraded Magento version to 2.4.4-p2 whenever we move files from local to server even any folder to another folder at same server, shows below error. We do every time vendor folder delete then run composer install command to fix it, but why this happens, please guide us.
vendor/composer/../thecodingmachine/safe/generated/apache.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/username/public_html/staging_site/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php on line 59
Try running the composer dump-autoload command instead of composer install. This command regenerates the autoload files without installing any new packages, and may help to resolve any issues with the autoload configuration.
My guess is that this has happened because when you move files, you are most likely excluding the /generated folder. But whatever method you are using, it is not just excluding /generated, but also folders named generated, even if they are many levels down. To resolve it, just remove the affected folder (rm -r vendor/thecodingmachine/) and run composer install again.
I had run across this when backing up a site using restic and doing a test restore. Specifically, I was excluding the generated folder in the backups. To prevent this error from happening, I had to include a leading slash to the exclude argument to anchor it to the root of the project. E.g. --exclude="/generated" instead of --exclude="generated"
