From e22146c53c9c4e7e345cde68217a75fb43682a55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Sargent 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.
+ If you are really lazy (or really a beginner) you can use the initial simple method (using /uploads/ )
+for the photos you have taken of cave entrances for cave survey and prospecting purposes. But please
+rename the filenames of the photos intelligently, e.g. "big-hole-near-path-to-fgh.jpg", or
+"2018-ad-07-entrance3.jpg" (rather than "DSC31415926.jpg"), and explain to an admin/nerd what you have done.
+Please use lower-case for all filenames.
If you are looking for how to upload a GPS track, those instructions have been moved to here.
+
diff --git a/handbook/uploading.html b/handbook/uploading.html
index a9bcf269b..8546b81b1 100644
--- a/handbook/uploading.html
+++ b/handbook/uploading.html
@@ -11,9 +11,14 @@
The end-result you are trying to achieve
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:
http://expo.survex.com/photos/
-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.
+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.
-Simple instructions
@@ -84,13 +89,22 @@ mac and android with other tools. If you have Windows 10 and http://winscp.net/eng/docs/screenshots
Both scp and cadaver give you an 'explorer-like' interface (although winscp can +
scp gives you an 'explorer-like' interface (although winscp can give you a norton-commander-style 2-pane UI as well).
+ +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).