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<li><a href="ftpusage.html">FTP using Cx_File_Explorer</a> (this is probably out of date)
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<h2 id="android">Bulk Data Phone: 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 <span style="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:<a href="http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andftp/"><img src="andftpsplash.jpg" width=128 style="float:right; margin: 10px"></a>
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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>But <em>none of this will work</em> until you have also done the <a href="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 <a href="phone.html">Android</a> instructions.
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<li>Install the <a href="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>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 <span style="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>Select the Create Folder option.
<li>A popup appears and you type in YourName. The folder is created.
<li>Click on the <span style="font-family: monospace">/YourName/</span> 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 photo files 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 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.
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