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    1. [FreeHelp] Re: ​Filezilla Issues
    2. Charles Carothers
    3. Since Billie and Patricia chimed in about directory naming, I thought I'd try to clarify what I said a bit. And I do agree that each person should do what works best for them. Personally, I don't use MyDocuments for anything. For ease of backing up all my data to a flash drive and so File Explorer puts it at the top of the list under D:, I keep *all* my data in a folder named 0ACCStuff. That first character is a zero, not an oh. If I look at the non-expanded directory structure on the host side in Filezilla for the site I'm paid to maintain, all I see is a rectangular blob. Obviously, you can't duplicate that on your local drive. So your highest level local side could be something like D:\XYZ or whatever you choose. This will not match the host side. When I expand the host side blob, the site has everything in a directory named public_html. Therefore, if my local highest level directory of choice for the web site is D:\XYZ I will have everything in D:\XYZ\public_html. I actually have another directory level above public_html, so the complete path to my hypothetical XYZ web site is D:\0ACCStuff\CCDoc\XYZ\public_html. The real point is to keep the directory structures identical once you get to that public_html level and at all lower levels under it. To continue the example one more level, if the host side has images stored in public_html\images then my copy of those images would be in D: \0ACCStuff\CCDoc \XYZ\public_html\images. Hopefully that will clarify what I mean about identical local and remote directory structures. Strictly speaking they are not *perfectly* identical because the names differ at the highest level, but below that they are identical. Saves a whole bunch of frustration and uploading files to the wrong directory. Even then, you will occasionally upload to the wrong directory due to not watching closely enough that the two panes are at the same place. (Please don't ask me how I know that! :-)) When that happens, you can just right click on the host side and delete the file that is in the wrong directory, navigate on the host side to the proper directory, and upload again. Blessings to all! -- Charlie Carothers http://www.freebiblecommentary.org <http://freebiblecommentary.org>

    08/07/2018 09:20:57