What happens when I deactivate a publishing feature?

Question:

 I have a site where the publishing feature was turned on. There are no file under Pages All web pages are under Site Pages. I have files under documents and the image folders. If I deactivate the publishing feature will anything break.


Solution:

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If you enable the SharePoint Server Publishing feature and attempt to restore a backed up site with this feature having been turned on once (even if you disable it before a backup), there will be issues with restoring that site