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<a href="fzexample.png" border=2><img src="fzexample.png" align=center width=65%></a><br>(Click to enlarge).
<p><img src="https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/favicon.ico" width=64 margin =10 align=right>For installing and pre-configuring Filezilla on a new machine see <a href="fzconfig.html">FileZilla install instructions</a> which will set you up pointing at the correct folder automatically.
<p><img src="https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/favicon.ico" width=64 style="float:right; margin: 10px">For installing and pre-configuring Filezilla on a new machine see <a href="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
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<p>You will need to know the expo password.</p>
<p><img src="https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/favicon.ico" width=64 margin =10 align=right>To installand configure Filezilla on your machine see <a href="fzconfig.html">FileZilla install instructions</a> which will set you up pointing at the correct folder automatically.
<p><img src="https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/favicon.ico" width=64 style="float:right; margin: 10px">To installand configure Filezilla on your machine see <a href="fzconfig.html">FileZilla install instructions</a> which will set you up pointing at the correct folder automatically.
<h3 id="android">Getting photo files from phones</h3>
<h2 id="android">Getting photo files from phones</h2>
<p>Phones are set up these daya to share photos via apps such as "Gallery" or "Google Photos" and most people never see the photo files explicitly. However you will need to see them in order to upload them.
<p>When plugged into a computer using a USB cable most laptops will offer the option to copy files as well as charge the phone. If your phone does this, then answer "yes" when that popup appears. The photos (and probably all your other media) will be copied to the laptop. Where it copies the files depends on your phone and you will have to sit at the laptop to find the folder it has put them into. (Note that some cheap USB cables are "power only" and won't do this with any phone.)
<p>If you use Google Photos or a similar app you can create an online album using the app and share it with your friends. Do this for your caving holiday snaps and cave entrance location photos and share them with an expo nerd who will download them the right place on the server. Be careful that you are sharing the full original resolution of the photos and not some cut-down compressed bastardized "enhanced" version of the photos.
<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 app. Currently (Expo 2019) the best seems to be the free
<p>to be written. test <a href="http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andftp/">andftp app</a> and document properly...
<h2 id="android">Using an FTP app </h2>
<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 <a href="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 /YourName/ folder (see above for file naming guidelines) is fiddly on a phone.
<p>To use the FTP app you will need:<img src="http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andftp/images/splash.jpg" width=128 style="float:right; margin: 10px">
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<li>The hostname of the server: <span style="font-family: monospace">expo.survex.com</span>
<li>the username: <span style="font-family: monospace">expo</span>
<li>the password: (the usual cavey:beery password which you can get verbally from another expoer)
<li>the target folder: <span style="font-family: monospace">/uploads/</span>, or it may appear as <span style="font-family: monospace">/expofiles/uploads/</span>
<li>the port number: 21 (if you leave this blank it will probably work)
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<p>Then this is what you do:
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<li>Install the 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>click on the icon that looks like a "plus" synbol in a circle
<li>This opens a window with 3 tabs: General, Advanced and Sync
<li>On the General tab, type in the hostname, username and password as listed above.
<li>Also tick the checkbox "Enable resume support"
<li>Click OK to the two popups that appear
<li>You will now see an icon of a networked file folder (light blue) with the label "expo.survex.com". Click on it.
<li>wait a while as it loads...
<li>keep waiting. Various messages will scroll by at the bottom of the screen in tiny font.
<li>keep waiting..
<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 /YourName/ and move those files into it. Click on the 3-dots icon on the right-hand end of the icon bar.
<li>Select the Create Folder option.
<li>A popup appears and you type in YourName. The folder is created.
<li>Click on the /YourName/ folder. This will makeyour folder the destination for uploaded files.
<li>Now click on the little icon of a phone near the middle of the top row of icons.
<li>This shows you the list of your photofiles you saw before.
<li>Clicking on each photo filename will cause a green tick to appear on the left. This is selecting files for FTP upload.
<li>Now click on the "upload icon" on the top row: it looks like a short horizontal line with an up-arrow on it.
<li>A popup will appear asking if you wish to proceed. Click OK.
<li>The upload happens and you can see progress bars for each file.
<li>When it finishes it presents a popup with an OK button. Click on it.
<li>Now you will see the files you have just uploaded.ANd they will be in your folder. Success.
<li>Now you need to rename the files to something descriptive. This is very time-consuming on a phone.
<li>Click on one file to give it a green tick. Then select the 3-dot icon and then select the "Rename" option in the drop-down menu.
<li>Of course you will have 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.
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