more docm. additions

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Philip Sargent 2018-08-12 16:22:26 +02:00
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@ -26,6 +26,16 @@ This will display a tree-structured menu in a sub-window and one of the items wi
and then click on the "Connect" button at the bottom of the sub-window.
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<li>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.
<li>Now check that these Filezilla settings are set correctly:
<ul>
<li>In the "Transfer" menu, ensure that "Preserve timestamps of transferred files" is <em>ticked</em>. Yes,you want to keep the timestamps.
<li>In the "View" menu,ensure that "Synchronized browsing" is <em>NOT ticked</em>.
(This will be greyed-out if you are not actually connected to the remote fileserver.)<br>
It is vital that this is un-ticked because you don't have a complete copy of the entire server website on your laptop, and Filezilla
may try to delete things on the server which you don't have on your laptop, i.e.most of it.
This setting should be fixed automatically in <b>zilla-uploads.xml</b> but we have seen occasions where it
seems to have been re-set somehow.
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<li>Now you are in and can copy and move files anywhere. But please don't: stick to copying files from your machine (the left window) to the server (the right window):<br><br>
<a href="fzexample.png" border=2><img src="fzexample.png" align=center width=65%></a><br>(Click to enlarge).

@ -65,7 +65,13 @@ directory: /home/expo/expofiles/<b>photos</b>/2018/YourName/
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<p>Obviously replace 'YourName' with your actual name (no spaces!).
It is important that you get this right as this specific way of writing your name is standardised across the website (this is known as "CamelCase").
It is important that you get this right as this specific way of writing
your name is standardised across the website
(this is known as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case">CamelCase</a>").
<p style="margin-left:20px">This is the only place in the whole system
that you should use some capital letters. Absolutely everywhere else you should use
only lower-case letters, no spaces, and hyphens (not underlines) when creating filenames, folder names or variable names of any sort.
<p>
Use the year that the photo was taken or the GPStrack logged.</p>
<p>Note that uploading photos does not automatically update the view