Many thanks to Charlie for trying to guide me back to sanity on my website. I think Charlie and I are in different universes because nothing he says matches what I see on my screen. On the View tab, I don't see a checkmark by a Local directory tree or Remote directory tree, and I don't see either tree. On the right side of my Filezilla program, the Remote site, I see a list of 26 programs and 1 directory. These programs are the basic content of my web page, with different programs for jack, june, art, neil, ralph, ruff, etc. This is what I want readers to find when they open my site. I don't know how these programs got to this place, but I suspect I had something to do with it. On the left side, the Local site, I see 21 files and 3 directories, none of which matches the content of my Remote site. Similarly, I don't know how they got there. These files include docs, locales, resources, authors, a bunch of .dll files and Filezilla exe. -- no programs or content. Plus there are a couple of other .exe files. This makes no sense to me. You can correct me, but I don't think I want to upload any of this to my Remote site. I'm thinking that I might need to delete some of these files, but I don't want to destroy the content of my site. Maybe I should uninstall Filezilla and start over with a reinstall? I think you are right about Kompozer. It is a text editor, apparently like your Crimson, and I have found it very useful. Thanks again. Neil > Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 15:55:19 -0400 > From: "Neil Boyer" < <mailto:naboyer@comcast.net> naboyer@comcast.net> > Subject: [FreeHelp]Re: FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 161 > > Filezilla Issues > To: < <mailto:freepages-help@rootsweb.com> freepages-help@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: < <mailto:009201d42dbf$68186660$38493320$@comcast.net> 009201d42dbf$68186660$38493320$@comcast.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I'm revealing that I know a lot less about this than I thought. > > When I go to the left side where Program Files are listed, I don't find the documents I want to upload and so I can't upload them. I have just edited those documents with Kompozer, but they don't appear. I don't even see Kompozer in that list. My guess is that they are hidden behind some other content and perhaps I need to double-click on something to open them. I would appreciate any help to calm my floundering around. > Many thanks. Neil > > Hi Neil, If you are seeing "Program Files" in the left pane, I think you are at the wrong directory on your local drive. You need to navigate to wherever on your local hard drive your site files are stored. On my hard drive, they are in a highest level directory that I named something like "CarothersFamilyMemories". Subdirectories such as Images, etc. are inside that directory. My index.html and other html and css files are at the highest level. Under the Filezilla "View" tab, do you have a check mark by "Local directory tree" and "Remote directory tree". If not, I would strongly suggest that you enable both of these items. With these enabled, you should see a "File-Explorer-like" structure above your file names on both sides. Using this, you can navigate to any directory on your local drive and on the host. If you pick the directory where you have saved, just as an example, your index.html file, then you should be able to right click on it and upload it to the host. Before you do that, you need to be sure that you have navigated to the corresponding place on the host side as well. I might just reiterate what has been stated here many times too. It will save you a lot of hair pulling (which I can ill afford :-)) if your directory structures for both the local and remote sides are identical. If they are not, you should probably pause right now and make that so using File Explorer on the local side to create/move directories and/or files until the two sides are identical. Given that your site existed before, I think it is much easier to make your local copy match the remote copy than to do it the other way around. I think you mentioned Kompozer. I know nothing about that, but I assume from the name it is some sort of an editor. It happens that I use an editor called Crimson. My normal work flow is: edit using Crimson, save the file, upload with Filezilla, and finally check the results using a browser (Chrome in my case). I suspect your work flow should be pretty similar. Hope this helps, -- Charlie Carothers <http://www.freebiblecommentary.org> http://www.freebiblecommentary.org < <http://freebiblecommentary.org> http://freebiblecommentary.org>

At 09:50 AM 8/7/2018, Neil Boyer wrote: >On the left side, the Local site, I see 21 files and 3 directories, none of >which matches the content of my Remote site. Similarly, I don't know how >they got there. These files include docs, locales, resources, authors, a >bunch of .dll files and Filezilla exe. -- no programs or content. Plus there >are a couple of other .exe files. This makes no sense to me. You can >correct me, but I don't think I want to upload any of this to my Remote >site. Absolutely not. >I'm thinking that I might need to delete some of these files, but I don't >want to destroy the content of my site. Maybe I should uninstall Filezilla >and start over with a reinstall? No. DO NOT DELETE THESE FILES. They are not necessarily to do with Filezilla and you don't want to delete any of your operating system files. Instead, do this: 1) Open Filezilla, but do not connect to your site yet. 2) Click the Site Manager icon in the upper left hand corner on the toolbar. 3) If you have more than one, highlight the name of your Freepages site in the left hand pane. 4) Click the Advanced tab. 5) Under Default local directory, click the Browse button. 6) The Browse button opens Windows Explorer. Navigate to the directory where you have saved your web site files on your computer. Click the Select Folder button. 7) The location of your files on your computer should now appear in the Default Local Directory box. 8) Click OK. Now when you connect to that site, Filezilla will show your files in the left-hand connection pane, and you can select the files you want to upload by right clicking and selecting upload from the dialogue box. Pat A.