Sorry, Barry, I am trying to follow your instructions carefully, but it's not working. From: Neil Boyer [mailto:naboyer@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2018 2:54 PM To: 'Neil A. Boyer ' <naboyer@comcast.net> Subject: geary Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 12:06:36 +1200 From: Barry Carlson <barrycarls@gmail.com <mailto:barrycarls@gmail.com> > Subject: [FreeHelp]Re: My FileZilla Issue To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com <mailto:freepages-help@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <8e3c4691-0e16-85a5-b4b8-71b8928ac17c@gmail.com <mailto:8e3c4691-0e16-85a5-b4b8-71b8928ac17c@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed You wrote on Aug 9: Neil, Just looking at your ~boyerlinks page, I note that you have various directories from the links on that page. You should go back to Patricia Geary's - http://sites.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/publishing-your-sites.html ... and examine her gearfamily directories - top right FileZilla pane. Well, Barry, on my computer, I don't see what you see: "I don't see this, as you wrote: "The first directory is genealogy_html, which leads to all her sub-directories." No, on my computer, I just see Pat's red-border heading : "publishing your Rootsweb Site with Filezilla." The top right box that I see says "Geary Family Directories," and the right-arrow takes me not to computer directories but simply to a Google list of websites, including phone "directories", of all things, and the Geary family pool schedule. No, I don't want that. I would like to see "boyerlinks" in that box, which you said I should find, but it's just not there. I think my computer has some crossed wires. Should I get a new computer? Neil You wrote: When you open FileZilla, you should see boyerlinks in the top right pane. Clicking on that should open up genealogy_html and subsequently your boyer, jackson and waltman directories in the pane below. Clicking on the appropriate directory will reveal the files in it. Barry

At 03:57 PM 8/9/2018, Neil Boyer wrote: >I would like to see "boyerlinks" in that box, which you said I should find, >but it's just not there. > >I think my computer has some crossed wires. Should I get a new computer? No, as Barry said, you don't need a new computer. To clear up any confusion, there are two Pat's who respond frequently on this list. One is me -- I am Pat Asher, and I respond to questions when I think I can help. Second is Pat Geary, who is one of our list experts on Filezilla. She has an instruction page on connecting to your restored RootsWeb site at <http://sites.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/publishing-your-sites.html> On your computer, set up Filezilla to connect to your account at usersites.rootsweb.com following her instructions. Note the host/server name for your FTP connection using Filezilla, is not the same as the server name you connect to when viewing your site using your browser (that is an http:// connection). The http:// URL for your site starts with sites.rootsweb.com/ Test your setup to see if Filezilla connects you. Ignore your local file pane for the moment and verify that you have connected to the server using Filezilla. If you are connected HOORAY, you are half way there. If the connection is not successful, go back to Pat Geary's instructions, review and double check your settings and try again. In the right hand pane, you should see the files you have uploaded to boyerlinks/genealogy_html/ These will include the directories containing your various family files, e.g. /Waltman /boyer_orwigsburg etc. Once you have verified you are able to connect to the server with Filezilla and see the files you have already uploaded, you can change your local directory so the files you want to upload appear in the left hand pane. But you should do that while you are NOT connected. Close your connection in Filezilla then follow the instructions I sent previously to identify your local directory so it shows up in the left hand pane. I will repeat them here: 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. I'm going to add one more suggestion. Since you have directories for various family lines, create one directory to hold all the directories for all of the family lines you have researched. You can call it anything you wish, e.g. MyWebs, Websites, Families, whatever. Just put them all in one place so when you browse your directories to find the one you want to open in Filezilla, it will contain all of your family subdirectories: C:\Users\Jake\Documents\Websites will contain the Waltman subdirectory, the Boyer subdirectory, the Jackson subdirectory, etc. Then, when you connect, you double click (for example) the Waltman subdirectory in the right hand pane to open it (so you will be uploading to that directory); then open the Waltman subdirectory in the left hand pane to find the file you want to upload/update. Pat Asher