diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 826503f5c5..7f57500c84 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 pcapkit-*-tempdir/
 pcapkit-temp.html
 
+# Guard the pre-rename path too: worktrees and older checkouts still hold
+# generated captures at examples/sample/, and nothing should track them.
+examples/sample/
 examples/captures/*
 !examples/captures/out.json
 !examples/captures/out.plist
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index e59266219d..55cbf739c0 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ prune .github
 prune .venv
 prune docs
 prune examples/captures
-prune examples/sample
 prune temp
 prune test
 
diff --git a/examples/sample/arp.pcap b/examples/sample/arp.pcap
deleted file mode 100644
index 571998cd84..0000000000
Binary files a/examples/sample/arp.pcap and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/examples/sample/dhcp_big_endian.pcapng b/examples/sample/dhcp_big_endian.pcapng
deleted file mode 100644
index 464a206ce4..0000000000
Binary files a/examples/sample/dhcp_big_endian.pcapng and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/examples/sample/http.pcap b/examples/sample/http.pcap
deleted file mode 100644
index b7ba7a8585..0000000000
Binary files a/examples/sample/http.pcap and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/examples/sample/ipv4.pcap b/examples/sample/ipv4.pcap
deleted file mode 100644
index 0dad7de37b..0000000000
Binary files a/examples/sample/ipv4.pcap and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/examples/sample/ipv6.pcap b/examples/sample/ipv6.pcap
deleted file mode 100644
index e50839e46e..0000000000
Binary files a/examples/sample/ipv6.pcap and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/examples/sample/stream.pcap b/examples/sample/stream.pcap
deleted file mode 100644
index 02cba7092a..0000000000
Binary files a/examples/sample/stream.pcap and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/examples/sample/tcp.pcap b/examples/sample/tcp.pcap
deleted file mode 100644
index e252a66f37..0000000000
Binary files a/examples/sample/tcp.pcap and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/tests/protocols/internet/test_ipv6_extension_runtime.py b/tests/protocols/internet/test_ipv6_extension_runtime.py
index 75fc79329f..bb9c513ae4 100644
--- a/tests/protocols/internet/test_ipv6_extension_runtime.py
+++ b/tests/protocols/internet/test_ipv6_extension_runtime.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 UDP_HEADER = (UDP_SRCPORT.to_bytes(2, 'big') + UDP_DSTPORT.to_bytes(2, 'big')
               + (8 + len(UDP_BODY)).to_bytes(2, 'big') + b'\x00\x00')
 
-#: Fragment identification, matching the one in ``examples/sample/ipv6.pcap``.
+#: Fragment identification, matching the one in ``examples/captures/ipv6.pcap``.
 FRAG_ID = 110308
 
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ class IPv6ExtensionPayloadOffsetTests(unittest.TestCase):
     """The next layer is read from after the *last* extension header.
 
     The datagrams here are built from bytes rather than read out of
-    ``examples/sample/``: no committed capture carries more than one IPv6
+    ``examples/captures/``: no committed capture carries more than one IPv6
     extension header, and the captures are pinned byte-for-byte by the rest of
     the suite, so a chain of several headers cannot be obtained from them.
     Parsing goes through :class:`~pcapkit.protocols.internet.ipv6.IPv6`