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
rename the filenames of the photos intelligently to e.g. "big-hole-near-path-to-fgh.jpg", or
"2018-ad-07-entrance3.jpg" rather than "DSC31415926.jpg" or whatever your camera app produces. Please explain by email to an admin/nerd what you have done, where you have put them and how you have renamed files.
<p>Please don't upload lots of near-duplicate photos: cull them first to just the good ones. We don't want any that are out of focus either.
<p>When copying many files put them into a new folder which identifies you personally.
When you copy the files create your own folder with your name like this: <pre>/YourName/</pre> and put your files into that folder. "YourName" should have no spaces, hyphens or underline characters (CamelCase).
<li>If you only have a photo or two just email them to someone who knows how to do it. <br>
If you are doing more than a few photos, email will be clunky, so do this:
<li>Copy the photo files from your phone to the <i>expo laptop</i> in the tatty hut using a USB cable.<br> See <ahref="#android">phone app</a> if you have problems.
<li>Rename the filenames of the photos to something descriptive (see para above).
<li>After copying your files to the <i>expo laptop</i> into the /uploads/ folder tell a nerd that you have done it.
<p><b>Complete beginners</b> should always put all their files into their own folder within the folder <b>/home/expo/expofiles/uploads/</b> on the <ahref="computer.html"><i>expo laptop</i></a> and ask an experienced user to move them to the right place later.
<p>If you want to use your photos in a blog (see below) tell an experienced user which and they will copy a lower-resolution version to the appropriate place.
<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.
<h3id="init">Uploading files from the <i>expo laptop</i></h3>
<p>Always learn how to <i>use</i> the system first on the <i>expo laptop</i> before trying to do it with your own machine.
<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>.
<p>The expo server has a big section under 'home/expo/expofiles/' that is <b>not under version control</b>. This is dangerous as there is no backup. If you overwrite some important files with holiday snaps then we are in big trouble.
<p>This is where we store big files that we don't want to keep multiple versions of which is why it is not under verson control.
<p>This is why we do not want beginners directly uploading photos to the server but to just put them on the <i>expo laptop</i> instead.
<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>
<ahref="fzexample.png"border=2><imgsrc="fzexample.png"align=centerwidth=65%></a><br>(Click to enlarge).
<p>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.
<h3>Automated magic</h3>
<p>Note that uploading photos does not automatically update the view
at <ahref="http://expo.survex.com/photos/">http://expo.survex.com/photos/</a> immediately. An update script needs to be run. This should run automatically once/day around midnight UTC (2017 and earlier) or a couple of minutes after you do the upload to the right place (2018 if Wookey gets this sorted out in time) but may be broken. Prod a web admin if nothing is updated by the next morning..</p>
<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>To installand configure Filezilla on your machine see <ahref="fzconfig.html">FileZilla install instructions</a> which will set you up pointing at the correct folder automatically.
