Hi Les, I am having no problem with my FTP - I was just trying to answer your problem! Please check your settings in WS_FTP under the startup tab to ensure your Roostweb web-site location is located correctly (Initial Remote Host Directory). You can also try this: Open a command prompt window: Start > Run - then type in CMD then press OK In the window that opens up type in: ftp <then your web-site address> (probably something like www.rootsweb.com - but there's variations - like freepages.. and homepages.. - depending on how and when you joined). It should prompt you for: User (....): That should be whatever is in your userid field in WS_FTP. Then it should prompt for a password - and I assume you have that! (I had to dig deep into my e-mails to find mine) Type that in - IT IS CASE-SENSITIVE! Now assuming you have gotten this far: ftp> - type in pwd ftp> pwd - this should respond with your "present working directory" in the form 257 /uxx/directory/yoursite - whatever it is - that is what you need to put in the WS_FTP "initial directory" field (ignore the 257). Hope that is clear ;) John >>Message: 4 >>Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:26:55 -0500 >>From: Lesley Shockey <[email protected]> >>Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] FTP - no connection to Rootsweb >>To: [email protected] >>Message-ID: <[email protected]> >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >> >>The problem you are having with FTP - no connection to Rootsweb >>sounds very similar to the problem that I am having with two of my >>pages. However my WS_FTP does connect but I get a message in the >>lower display that says "retrieval of directory listing failed" each >>time I try connecting. The remote directory therefore remains >>blank. This is happening on my Jackson County WVGenWeb page and also >>my Shockey Family page. The same software is working fine with my >>WVGenWeb state page access so I believe that the problem is somewhere >>with the RootsWeb server. >> >>Les Shockey > -- John Gibson Chalmers - [email protected] Homepages ... http://www.dgnscrn.demon.co.uk/ and ... http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~chalmers/