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Fixing filezilla stuff after feedback fom nat
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@@ -15,7 +15,16 @@
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<li>Open Filezilla and start it running.
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<li>Click on the "File" menu item, and select the "Import..." command, this will open a file browser on your local machine
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<li>Navigate to your default downloads folder and select the <b>zilla-uploads.xml</b> file.
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<li>Now select the "Bookmarks" menu item: at the bottom of the drop-down menu you will see "Expo-uploads". Click on it.
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<li>Now select the "Bookmarks" menu item:
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<ul>
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<li>At the bottom of the "Bookmarks" drop-down menu you may see "Expo-uploads";
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if so, click on it.
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<li>If you can't see "Expo-uploads" in that menu
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(because this is temporarily broken in version 3.28 of Filezilla),
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click on the "File" menu item and select "Site Manager...".
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This will display a tree-structured menu in a sub-window and one of the items will be "Expo-uploads". Highlight it
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and then click on the "Connect" button at the bottom of the sub-window.
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</ul>
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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.
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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>
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@@ -11,9 +11,14 @@
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<h2>The end-result you are trying to achieve</h2>
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What you are trying to do is to get your happy holiday snaps appear properly indexed with all the others from the previous decades of expo history. You can see them all here: <br /> <a
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href="http://expo.survex.com/photos/">http://expo.survex.com/photos/</a><br />
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which is the end result. But all you have to do is to upload the photos to the right place. A hidden script does the hard work to make it all look nice.
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which is the end result. But all you have to do is to upload the photos to the right place.
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A hidden script does the hard work to make it all look nice.
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<p>If you are really lazy (or really a beginner) you can use the initial simple method for the photos you have taken of cave entrances [for cave survey and prospecting purposes] so long as you label the filenames of the photos very carefully and tell an admin/nerd what you have done.
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<p>If you are really lazy (or really a beginner) you can use the initial simple method (using /uploads/ )
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for the photos you have taken of cave entrances for cave survey and prospecting purposes. But please
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rename the filenames of the photos intelligently, e.g. "big-hole-near-path-to-fgh.jpg", or
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"2018-ad-07-entrance3.jpg" (rather than "DSC31415926.jpg"), and explain to an admin/nerd what you have done.
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Please use lower-case for all filenames.
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<p>If you are looking for how to upload a GPS track, those instructions have <a href="gpxupload.html">been moved to here</a>.
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<h2>Simple instructions</h2>
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@@ -84,13 +89,22 @@ mac and android with other tools. If you have Windows 10 and <a href="https://ms
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<p>screenshots:
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<a href="http://winscp.net/eng/docs/screenshots">http://winscp.net/eng/docs/screenshots</a></p>
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<!-- WedDAV no longer works because the effective user is "apache" and the permissions
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for the folder /uploads/ no longer allow it to write anything because we had to change it to allow Filezilla
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to work.Philip & Wookey 11 August 2018
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<h3>Using WebDAV - cadaver</h3>
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<p>Command-line people can use the 'cadaver' client which is even
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available for windows too:
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<a href="http://www.phtagr.org/2009/04/01/cadaver-for-windows/">www.phtagr.org/2009/04/01/cadaver-for-windows/</a></p>
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-->
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<p>Both scp and cadaver give you an 'explorer-like' interface (although winscp can
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<p>scp gives you an 'explorer-like' interface (although winscp can
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give you a norton-commander-style 2-pane UI as well).</p>
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<h3>Using WebDAV</h3>
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This no longer works as we had to change the folder permissions for /uploads/. Sorry.
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<h3>Using rsync</h3>
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<p>No, don't use rsync for this. Really don't. It's too liable to delete everything or to overwrite files which are not changed at all because of the incompatibilities between Linux and Windows filename conventions (uppercase and lowercase are automagically converted and rsync gets it wrong).
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