What you are trying to do is to get your happy holiday snaps appear <i>properly indexed</i> with all the others from the previous decades of expo history. You can see them all here: <br/><a
<p>The <ahref="https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=25195.msg310908#msg310908">UK Caving blog</a> requires that
photos in it are actually hosted elsewhere. This needs to be a permanent place so
that the blogs can be read in years to come. Imgur, Flikr or Instagram are OK though not ideal (expo has its own Instagram account) but
your personal GoogleDocs or GooglePhotos stash definitely is not.
Preferably
they should be put on the expo server e.g. 2018 blog photos are permanently archived on <ahref="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/photos/2018/BlogPostPhotos/">expo.survex.com<b>/expofiles/</b>photos/2018/BlogPostPhotos/</a> in the published resolution.
<p>OK the admin/nerd you have been asking to move the files to the right place on the <i>expo laptop</i> is getting fed up and now wants you to put the uploaded photos in the right place yourself and not just in /uploads/. This is where they go:
<p>Obviously replace /2019/ with the current year. This is the expo year the photos are taken, so if you are uploading a previous years' photos which you never got around to uploading you will use /2018/ or whatever.
<p>OK the files have been put into the correct place on the laptop by an experienced user and now you need to copy them to the
server. Don't worry about deleting them from the <i>expo laptop</i> after copying as we can do that clean-up at the end of expo. In
fact <i>don't</i> delete them from /uploads/ on the <i>expo laptop</i>, moved them to a sub-folder called "already_uploaded" or somesuch in the same folder
<li>Start up Filezilla - click on red "Fz" logo in the application favourites bar on the laptop desktop.
<li>Click on the "Bookmarks" menu item:
<ul>
<li>At the bottom of the "Bookmarks" drop-down menu you may see "expo-uploads";
if so, click on it.
<li>If you can't see "expo-uploads" in that menu
(because this is temporarily broken in version 3.28 of Filezilla),
click on the "File" menu item and select "Site Manager...".
This will display a tree-structured menu in a sub-window and one of the items will be "expo-uploads". Highlight it
and then click on the "Connect" button at the bottom of the sub-window.
</ul>
<li>If this is the first time it is used this expo you will now be prompted for the password for the expo server. This is the "cavey:beery" one which we never write down or write in emails. Get it verbally or by phone or secure text message from another expoer.
</ul>
<p>Now you are in and can copy and move files anywhere. But please stick to copying files from your machine (the left window) to the server (the right window) into the /uploads/, /photos/ or /gpslogs/ folders only:<br><br>
<p><imgsrc="https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/favicon.ico"width=64style="float:right; margin: 10px">For installing and pre-configuring Filezilla on a new machine see <ahref="fzconfig.html">FileZilla install instructions</a> which will set you up pointing at the correct folder automatically. But <em>none of this will work</em> on new machine until you have also done the <ahref="keyexchange.html">key-pair setup</a> procedure.
<p>To use your own laptop on expo, or after you return from expo, you need need to use FTP. So become an <ahref="#experienced">experienced user</a> first.
<p>You will need to know the expo password but <em>none of this will work</em> until you have also done the <ahref="keyexchange.html">key-pair setup</a> procedure.</p>
<p><imgsrc="https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/favicon.ico"width=64style="float:right; margin: 10px">To install and configure Filezilla on your machine see <ahref="fzconfig.html">FileZilla install instructions</a> which will set you up pointing at the correct folder automatically.
<p>If you want to do it yourself and the USB cable trick does not work then you will need to install a file manager and FTP app. Currently (on Expo 2019) the best seems to be the free <ahref="http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andftp/">andftp</a> app. Assuming you can find where your phone camera has put the photo files on your phone, you can use your phone to upload photos directly to the /uploads/ folder on the expo server. However renaming them to something sensible and putting them in your own <spanstyle="font-family: monospace">/YourName/</span> folder (see above for file naming guidelines) is fiddly on a phone.
<p>To use the FTP app you will need:<ahref="http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andftp/"><imgsrc="andftpsplash.jpg"width=128style="float:right; margin: 10px"></a>
<li>the password: (the usual cavey:beery password which you can get verbally from another expoer)
<li>the target folder: <spanstyle="font-family: monospace">/uploads/</span>, or it may appear as <spanstyle="font-family: monospace">/expofiles/uploads/</span>
<li>the port number: 21 (if you leave this blank it will probably work)
<p>But <em>none of this will work</em> until you have also done the <ahref="keyexchange.html">key-pair setup</a> procedure. On a phone this means that you will also need to install a terminal (command line) app. See <ahref="yourlaptop.html">your machine</a> instructions, the Android bits.
<li>Install the <ahref="http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andftp/">andftp</a> app onto your Android phone using the Google Play Store and allow it to access your files and photos on your phone (just click on the popup to do this).
<li>The tiny text at the bottom will say "226 Transfer complete" and the main part of the window will show a listing of the files in the /uploads/ folder on the server.
<li>Now click on the little icon of a phone near the middle of the top row of icons.
<li>This will show a list of folders on your phone. Initially it will show "alt_autocycle, Android and DCIM".
<li>Click on ""DCIM", it will show a folder "Camera", click on that
<li>Now you can see a list of all your photo files by name and with the size shown on the right. Typically they will be 1.3MB or so in size.
<li>Before you upload, you need to create your own folder.
<li>Now click on the icon of a little cloud near the middle of the icon bar. This will show the files on the server.
<li>Now you need to create a folder <spanstyle="font-family: monospace">/YourName/</span> and move those files into it. Click on the 3-dots icon on the right-hand end of the icon bar.
<li>Of course you will have earlier noted down the names of all your photos and made a note of their contents (which you see using the phone's Gallery app) so that you can do the renaming intelligently.
